and sent his army, under his own brother, against the Saracens of
Syria._ Sec. 60.--_How the first war arose between the Genoese and the
Venetians._ Sec. 61.--_How the Count Guido Guerra expelled the Ghibelline
party from Arezzo, and how the Florentines reinstated it._ Sec. 62.--_How
the Pisans broke the peace, and how the Florentines routed them at the
bridge over the Serchio._ Sec. 63.--_How the Florentines destroyed the
castle of Poggibonizzi the first time._ Sec. 64.--_Incident telling of a
great miracle concerning the body of Christ which came to pass in the
city of Paris._

Sec. 65.--_How the Popolo of Florence drave out the Ghibellines for the
first time from Florence, and the reason why._

[Sidenote: 1258 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Par. xvi.]

[Sidenote: Inf. xxxii. 118, 119.]

In the year of Christ 1258, when Messer Jacopo Bernardi di Porco was
Podesta of Florence, at the end of the month of July they of the house
of the Uberti, with their Ghibelline allies, incited thereto by
Manfred, purposed to break up the Popolo of Florence, forasmuch as it
seemed to them to lean towards the Guelf party. When the said plot was
discovered by the Popolo, and they who had made it were summoned and
cited to appear before the magistrates, they would not appear nor come
before them, but the staff of the Podesta were grievously wounded and
smitten by them; for the which thing the people ran to arms, and ran
in fury to the houses of the Uberti, where is now the piazza of the
palace of the people and of the priors, and there they slew
Schiattuzzo degli Uberti and many of the followers and retainers of
the Uberti, and they took Uberto Caini degli Uberti and Mangia degli
Infangati, which when they had confessed the conspiracy in parliament
were beheaded in Orto San Michele; and the rest of the family of the
Uberti, with many other Ghibelline families, left Florence. The names
of the Ghibelline families of renown which left Florence were these:
the Uberti, the Fifanti, the Guidi, the Amidei, the Lamberti, the
Scolari, and part of the Abati, Caponsacchi, Migliorelli, Soldanieri,
Infangati, Ubriachi, Tedaldini, Galigari, the della Pressa, Amieri,
they of Cersino, the Razzanti, and many other houses and families of
the popolari and of decayed magnates, which cannot all be named, and
other families of nobles in the country; and they went to Siena,
which was governed in the Ghibelline interest, and was hostile to the
Florentines; and their