e, or any other cause,
that they should invite a gentleman from some other city, who might be
their Podesta for a year, and administer civil justice with his
assessors and judges, and carry into execution sentences and penalties
on the person. And the first Podesta in Florence was Gualfredotto of
Milan, in the said year; and he dwelt in the Bishop's Palace,
forasmuch as there was as yet no palace of the commonwealth in
Florence. Yet the government of the consuls did not therefore cease,
but they reserved to themselves the administration of all other things
in the commonwealth. And by the said government the city was ruled
until the time of the Primo Popolo in Florence, as hereafter we shall
make mention, and then was created the office of the Ancients.

[Sidenote: 1208 A.D.]

Sec. 33.--_How the Florentines defeated the Sienese at Montalto._ Sec.
34.--_How the Sienese sued for peace to the Florentines and obtained
it._ Sec. 35.--_How Otho IV. was crowned Emperor; and how he became the
enemy and persecutor of Holy Church._

Sec. 36.--_How during Otho's lifetime Frederick II. of Suabia was
elected Emperor by the desire of the Church of Rome._

The said Otho being the enemy of the Church, and being deposed by the
general council of the Empire, the Church arranged with the electors
of Germany that they should elect to be king of the Romans, Frederick,
the young king of Sicily, who was in Germany, and he won a great
victory against the said Otho; and afterwards the said Otho, returning
to his duty, went on crusade to Damietta over seas, and there died,
and the election was left to Frederick; and afterwards, in the time
of Pope Honorius III., who succeeded to the aforesaid Innocent, the
said Frederick of Germany came to Venice, and then by sea into his
kingdom of Apulia, and then to Rome; and by the said Pope Honorius and
by the Romans he was received with great honour, and crowned Emperor,
as hereafter in treating of him we will make mention. We will leave
speaking of the Emperor for a time, and will tell of the doings of the
Florentines up to the time of his coronation.

Sec. 37.--_Concerning the death of the old Count Guido, and of his
progeny._

[Sidenote: 1213 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Par. xvi. 64, 98.]

[Sidenote: Par. xv. 112, xvi. 99.]

[Sidenote: Par. xvi. 94-99. Inf. xvi. 37.]

[Sidenote: Cf. Epistolae Dant. Allig. adscriptae, i.-iii.]

[Sidenote: Inf. xvi. 34-39. Inf. xxx. 73-78. Cf. Epist. ii. Cf. Purg