se._
Sec. 92.--_How the Genoese discomfited the Pisans at Meloria._ Sec.
93.--_How Charles, prince of Salerno, was defeated and taken prisoner
at sea, by Ruggeri di Loria, with the fleet of the Sicilians._ Sec.
94.--_How King Charles arrived at Naples with his fleet, and then made
ready to pass to Sicily._

Sec. 95.--_How the good King Charles passed from this life at the city
of Foggia in Apulia._

[Sidenote: 1284 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Purg. vii. 113, 124, 128.]

[Sidenote: Par. viii. 31, 49-72; ix. 1.]

[Sidenote: Cf. Par. viii. 82, 83; Purg. xx. 79-84.]

[Sidenote: Par. viii. 76-84.]

When King Charles had returned with his host to Brindisi, he disbanded
them and returned to Naples to make his arrangements, and to furnish
himself with money and with men to go again to Sicily the coming
spring. And like one whose anxious mind could not rest, when
mid-December was past, he returned into Apulia, to be at Brindisi to
hasten on his fleet. When he was at Foggia, in Apulia, as it pleased
God, he fell sick of a grievous sickness, and passed from this life on
the day following the Epiphany, on the 7th day of January, in the year
of Christ 1284. But before he died, with great contrition taking the
Body of Christ, he said with great reverence these words: "Sire Dieu,
comme je crois vraiment que vous etes mon Sauveur, ainsi je vous prie,
que vous ayez merci de mon ame; ainsi comme je fis la prise du royaume
de Cicile plus pour servir sainte Eglise que pour mon profit ou autre
convoitise, ainsi vous me pardonniez mes peches;" and a short time
after he passed from this life, and his body was brought to Naples;
and after great lamentation had been made over his death, he was
buried at the archbishop's at Naples with great honour. Concerning
this death of King Charles there was a great marvel, for the same day
whereon he died, the tidings of his death were published by one
Brother Arlotto, a minister of the Minor Friars, and by M. Giardino da
Carmignanola, a teacher in the University; and when this came to the
notice of the king of France he sent for them to learn whence they
knew it. They said that they knew his nativity, which was under the
lordship of Saturn, and by its influence had resulted his exaltations
and his adversities; and some said that they knew it by revelation of
some spirit, for each of them was a great astrologer and necromancer.
This Charles was the most feared and redoubted lord, and the most
valiant in