Chapter VIII: Book IX

_Here begins the Ninth Book. How Henry, count of Luxemburg, was made Emperor._

Sec. 1. 393

Sec. 7.--_How the Emperor Henry departed from Germany to go into Italy_ 394

Sec. 8.--_How King Robert came to Florence as he returned from his coronation_ 395

Sec. 9.--_How the Emperor Henry passed into Italy, and gained the city of Milan_ 396

Sec. 10.--_How the Florentines enclosed the new circle of the city with moats_ 397

Sec. 11.--_How the della Torre were driven out of Milan_ 398

Sec. 12.--_How there was great scarcity in Florence, and concerning other events_ 400

Sec. 14.--_How the Emperor besieged Cremona, and his people took Vicenza_ 400

Sec. 15.--_How the Emperor took the city of Cremona_ 401

Sec. 16.--_How the Florentines, by reason of the Emperor's coming, recalled from banishment all the Guelfs_ 402

Sec. 17.--_How the Florentines, with all the Guelf cities of Tuscany, made a league together against the Emperor_ 402

Sec. 20.--_How the Emperor Henry took the city of Brescia by siege_ 403

Sec. 22.--_How Pope Clement sent legates to crown the Emperor Henry_ 405

Sec. 26.--_How the ambassadors from the Emperor came to Florence, and were driven thence_ 406

Sec. 28.--_How the Empress died in Genoa_ 407

Sec. 29.--_How the Emperor put the Florentines under the ban of the Empire_ 407

Sec. 32.--_How the city of Brescia rebelled against the Emperor_ 407

Sec. 34.--_How the city of Cremona rebelled against the Emperor_ 408

Sec. 35.--_How the marshal of the Emperor came to Pisa, and began war with the Florentines_ 408

Sec. 36.--_How the Paduans rebelled against the lordship of the Emperor_ 409

Sec. 39.--_Of the gathering together made by King Robert and the league of Tuscany at Rome to oppose the coronation of the Emperor Henry_ 409

Sec. 40.--_How the Emperor Henry departed from Pisa and came to Rome_ 410

Sec. 43.--_How Henry of Luxemburg was crowned Emperor at Rome_ 411

Sec. 44.--_How the Emperor departed from Rome to go into Tuscany_ 413

Sec. 45.--_How the Emperor came to the city of Arezzo, and afterwards how he came towards the city of Florence_ 414

Sec. 46.--_How the Florentines were well-nigh discomfited at the fortress of Ancisa by the army of the Emperor_ 415

Sec. 47.--_How the Emperor Henry encamped with his host before the city of Florence_ 416

Sec. 48.--_How the Emperor abandoned the siege, and departed from San Salvi, and came to San Casciano, and then to Poggibonizzi_ 419

Sec. 49.--_How the Emperor departed from Poggibonizzi, and returned to Pisa, and issued many bans against the Florentines_ 421

Sec. 50.--_How the Emperor condemned King Robert_ 422

Sec. 51.--_How the Emperor made ready to enter into the Kingdom against King Robert, and departed from Pisa_ 423

Sec. 52.--_How the Emperor Henry died at Bonconvento, in the country of Siena_ 424

Sec. 53.--_Relates how, when the Emperor was dead, his host was divided, and the barons carried his body to the city of Pisa_ 425

Sec. 56.--_How the Florentines gave the lordship of Florence to King Robert for five years_ 426

Sec. 59.--_Of the death of Pope Clement_ 427

Sec. 63.--_How the Paduans were discomfited at Vicenza by M. Cane della Scala_ 428

Sec. 66.--_Of the death of Philip, king of France, and of his sons_ 428

Sec. 70.--_How Uguccione, lord of Lucca and of Pisa, laid siege to the castle of Montecatini_ 430

Sec. 71.--_How, when the prince of Taranto was come to Florence, the Florentines sallied forth with their army to succour Montecatini, and were defeated by Uguccione della Faggiuola_ 431

Sec. 72.--_More about the said battle and defeat of the Florentines and of the prince_ 432

Sec. 81.--_Of the election of Pope John XXII._ 434

Sec. 86.--_How Uguccione da Faggiuola sought to re-enter Pisa, and what came of it in Pisa, and of the Marquis Spinetta_ 436

Sec. 87.--_How the Ghibelline party left Genoa_ 437

Sec. 89.--_How M. Cane della Scala led an army against the Paduans, and took many castles from them_ 438

Sec. 90.--_How the exiles from Genoa with the force of the Ghibellines of Lombardy besieged Genoa_ 438

Sec. 92.--_How the exiles from Genoa took the suburbs of Prea_ 439

Sec. 93.--_How King Robert came by sea to succour Genoa_ 440

Sec. 94.--_How the Genoese gave the lordship of Genoa to King Robert_ 441

Sec. 95.--_Of the active war which the exiles of Genoa with the Lombards made against King Robert_ 442

Sec. 97.--_How King Robert's followers discomfited the exiles from Genoa at the village of Sesto, and how they departed from the siege of the city_ 443

Sec. 99.--_How the exiles from Genoa with the Lombards returned to the siege of Genoa_ 444

Sec. 100.--_How M. Cane della Scala took the suburbs of Padua_ 445

Sec. 121.--_How M. Cane della Scala, being at the siege of Padua, was defeated by the Paduans and by the count of Goertz_ 446

Sec. 136.--_Concerning the poet Dante Alighieri of Florence_ 448