of the factions which had already begun; and the
Priors which ruled the city and all the republic, did not feel
themselves secure in their former habitation, which was the house of
the White Cerchi behind the church of San Brocolo. And they built the
said palace where had formerly been the houses of the Uberti, rebels
against Florence, and Ghibellines; and on the site of those houses
they made a piazza, so that they might never be rebuilt. And they
bought other houses from citizens, such as the Foraboschi, and there
built the said palace and the tower of the priors, which was raised
upon a tower which was more than fifty cubits high, pertaining to the
Foraboschi, and called the Torre della Vacca. And to the end the said
palace might not stand upon the ground of the said Uberti, they which
had the building of it set it up obliquely; but for all that it was a
grave loss not to build it four-square, and further removed from the
church of San Piero Scheraggio.

[Sidenote: 1299 A.D.]

Sec. 27.--_How peace was made between the commonwealth of Genoa and that
of Venice._ Sec. 28.--_How peace was made between the commonwealth of
Bologna and the marquis of Este and Maghinardo da Sussinana by the
Florentines._ Sec. 29.--_How King James of Aragon with Ruggeri di Loria
and with the armada of King Charles defeated the Sicilians off Cape
Orlando._ Sec. 30.--_How peace was made between the Genoese and Pisans._
Sec. 31.--_When the new walls of the city of Florence were begun again._
Sec. 32.--_How the king of France by his practices got hold of all
Flanders, and had the count and his sons in prison._ Sec. 33.--_How the
king of France allied himself with King Albert of Germany._ Sec.
34.--_How the prince of Taranto was defeated in Sicily._ Sec. 35.--_How
Ghazan, lord of the Tartars, defeated the soldan of the Saracens, and
took the Holy Land in Syria._

Sec. 36.--_How Pope Boniface VIII. gave pardons to all Christians which
should go to Rome, in the year of the jubilee, 1300._

[Sidenote: 1300 A.D.]

[Sidenote: Cf. Purg. ii. 98, 99.]

[Sidenote: Par. xxxi. 104-108.]

[Sidenote: Inf. xviii. 28-33.]

In the year of Christ 1300, according to the birth of Christ, inasmuch
as it was held by many that after every hundred years from the
nativity of Christ, the Pope which was reigning at the time granted
great indulgences, Pope Boniface VIII., which then occupied the
apostolic chair, in reverence for the nativity of Christ, grante