ouis, son of King Charles._ Sec. 24.--_How the Emperor
Henry came into the city of Genoa._ Sec. 25.--_How an imperial vicar came
to Arezzo._

Sec. 26.--_How the ambassadors from the Emperor came to Florence, and
were driven thence._

[Sidenote: 1311 A.D.]

In the said year, and month of October, there came to Florence M.
Pandolfo Savelli, of Rome, and other clerks as ambassadors from the
Emperor. When they were come to Lastra, above Montughi, the priors of
Florence sent them word not to enter into Florence, but to depart. The
said ambassadors, not being willing to depart, were robbed by
Florentine highwaymen, with the secret consent of the priors; and
fleeing in peril of their lives, they departed by the way of Mugello
to Arezzo, and afterwards from Arezzo summoned all the nobles and
lords and the commonwealths of Tuscany to prepare themselves to come
to the Emperor's coronation at Rome.

[Sidenote: 1311 A.D.]

Sec. 27.--_How the Florentines sent their troops to Lunigiana to oppose
the passage of the Emperor._

Sec. 28.--_How the empress died in Genoa._

[Sidenote: 1311 A.D.]

In the said year, in the month of November, there died in Genoa the
empress, wife of the Emperor, which was held to be a holy and good
woman, and was daughter of the duke of Brabant; and was buried in the
Minor Friars with great honour.

Sec. 29.--_How the Emperor put the Florentines under the ban of the
Empire._

[Sidenote: 1311 A.D.]

In the said year and month the Emperor issued a proclamation from
Genoa against the Florentines that, if within forty days they did not
send him twelve good men with a plenipotentiary and full promise to
obey him, he would condemn their goods and persons to be forfeit,
wherever found. The commonwealth of Florence did not send any
messengers, but all the Florentine merchants which were in Genoa
received orders to depart thence, and this they did; and after that,
all merchandise which was found in Genoa in the name of the
Florentines was seized by the court of the Emperor.

[Sidenote: 1311 A.D.]

Sec. 30.--_Of the scandal which was in Florence among the wool-workers._
Sec. 31.--_How King Robert sent men to Florence to oppose the Emperor._

Sec. 32.--_How the city of Brescia rebelled against the Emperor._

[Sidenote: 1311 A.D.]

In the said year, in the end of December, the Guelfs of Brescia
re-entered the city to cause it to rebel against the Emperor. Thither
rode M. Cane della Scal