ead to prison, but put
them all to death and to the sword; wherefore the city of Siena, in
comparison with the number of its inhabitants, suffered greater loss
of its citizens in this defeat than Florence did on the day of
Montaperti; and they left on the field all their belongings. For the
which thing a little while after, the Florentines restored the Guelf
refugees to Siena and drave out the Ghibellines and made peace between
one commonwealth and the other, remaining ever after friends and
allies. And in this manner ended the war between the Florentines and
the Sienese which had endured so long.

[Sidenote: 1269 A.D.]

Sec. 32.--_How the Florentines took the castle of Ostina in Valdarno._
Sec. 33.--_How the Florentines, serving for the Lucchese, marched upon
Pisa._

Sec. 34.--_How there was a great flood of waters which carried away the
Santa Trinita Bridge and the Carraia Bridge._

[Sidenote: 1269 A.D.]

In the said year 1269, on the night of the first of October, there was
so great a flood of rain and waters from heaven, raining down
continually for two nights and one day, that all the rivers of Italy
increased more than had ever been known before; and the river of Arno
overflowed its borders so beyond measure that a great part of the city
of Florence became a lake, and this was by reason of much wood which
the rivers brought down, which was caught and lay across at the foot
of the Santa Trinita Bridge in such wise, that the water of the river
was so stopped up that it spread through the city, whence many persons
were drowned and many houses ruined. At last so great was the force of
the river that it tore down the said bridge of Santa Trinita, and
again by the disgorging thereof the rush of the water and of the
timber struck and destroyed the Carraia Bridge; and when they were
destroyed and cast down the height of the river, which had been kept
up by the said retention and damming of the river, went down, and the
fulness of the water ceased which had spread through the city.

Sec. 35.--_How certain rebel nobles in Florence were beheaded._ Sec.
36.--_How the Florentines took the stronghold of Piandimezzo in
Valdarno, and how they destroyed Poggibonizzi._

Sec. 37.--_-How King Louis of France made an expedition to Tunis, wherein
he died._

[Sidenote: 1270 A.D.]

In the year of Christ 1270 the good King Louis of France, which was a
most Christian man, and of good life and works, not only as becomes