quarterly, bearing
golden lilies and surrounded by a bordure of red and silver, which are
the arms of Hungary. And they appeared the noblest and richest company
a young king ever had with him. And in Florence he abode more than
twenty days, awaiting his father, King Charles, and his brothers; and
the Florentines did him great honour, and he showed great love to the
Florentines, wherefore he was in high favour with them all. And when
King Charles was come into Florence, and Robert and Raymond and John,
his sons, with the marquis of Montferrat, which was to have for wife
the daughter of the king, he made many knights in Florence and
received much honour and many presents from the Florentines; and then
the king with all his sons returned to the papal court and afterwards
to Naples. And this done, and after all the articles of the treaty of
peace had been fulfilled by the Pope and by King Charles, Don James
departed from Sicily and came into Aragon, and was crowned king over
the realm; but whosoever may have been in fault, whether the Pope or
Don James, King Charles found himself deceived, for when King Charles
thought to have the island of Sicily again in quiet, after Don James
had departed, Frederick, his next brother, became lord thereof, and
caused himself to be crowned king by the Sicilians against the will of
the Church by the bishop of Cephalonia; wherefore the Pope was much
angered with the king of Aragon, as well as with Frederick his
brother, and caused him to be summoned to court, which King James
came thither the following year, as hereafter we shall make mention.

[Sidenote: 1296 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Inf. xxvii. 49-51.]

[Sidenote: 1297 A.D.]

[Sidenote: 1298 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Purg. vi. 97.]

Sec. 14.--_How the Guelf party were driven by force out of Genoa._ Sec.
15.--_The doings of the Tartars of Persia._ Sec. 16.--_How Maghinardo
da Susinana defeated the Bolognese and took the city of Imola._ Sec.
17.--_How the people of Florence built the cities and strongholds of
Sangiovanni and Castelfranco in Valdarno._ Sec. 18.--_How King James
of Aragon came to Rome, and Pope Boniface granted him the island of
Sardinia._ Sec. 19.--_How the counts of Flanders and of Bar rebelled
against the king of France._ Sec. 20.--_How the count of Artois defeated
the Flemings at Furnes, and how the king of England passed into
Flanders._ Sec. 21.--_How Pope Boniface deposed from the cardinalate M.
Jacopo and M. Piero della Colo