How M. Cane della Scala took the suburbs of Padua._

In the said year 1319, in August, M. Cane della Scala, with the exiles
from Padua, whom the Paduans would not restore to the city according
to the compact made by M. Cane, came with an army against Padua, with
2,000 horse and 10,000 foot, and took the suburbs, and set up there
three camps in order the better to besiege it.

[Sidenote: 1320 A.D.]

Sec. 101.--_How the Guelfs of Lombardy retook Cremona._ Sec. 102.--_How
M. Ugo dal Balzo was routed at Alessandria._ Sec. 103.--_How the refugees
from Genoa retook the suburbs of Genoa._ Sec. 104.--_How the Ghibellines
took Spoleto._ Sec. 105.--_How the king of Tunis recovered his lordship._
Sec. 106.--_How Castruccio, lord of Lucca, broke peace with the
Florentines, and began war against them again._ Sec. 107.--_How folk of
the refugees from Genoa were routed at Lerici._ Sec. 108.--_How the
Genoese took Bingane._ Sec. 109.--_How the Pope and the Church invited M.
Philip of Valois to come into Lombardy._ Sec. 110.--_How M. Philip of
Valois returned into France with shame, having gained nothing._ Sec.
111.--_How Castruccio marched upon the Genoese Riviera._ Sec. 112.--_How
Frederick of Sicily sent his fleet of galleys to besiege Genoa._ Sec.
113.--_How King Robert equipped his fleet of galleys to oppose that of
the Sicilians, and what it accomplished._ Sec. 114.--_Of the same._ Sec.
115.--_How the Florentines forced Castruccio to return from the siege
of Genoa._ Sec. 116.--_Of the assaults which the exiles from Genoa and
the Sicilians made upon the city, wherein they were worsted._ Sec.
117.--_How the exiles from Genoa laid waste Chiaveri._ Sec. 118.--_How
the exiles from Genoa took Noli, and did divers acts of war._ Sec.
119.--_How the king of Spain's brother was routed by the Saracens of
Granada._ Sec. 120.--_How the brothers of the Hospital defeated the Turks
with their fleet at Rhodes._

Sec. 121.--_How M. Cane della Scala being at the siege of Padua, was
defeated by the Paduans and by the count of Goertz._

[Sidenote: 1320 A.D.]

In the said year 1320, M. Cane della Scala, lord of Verona, had
besieged the city of Padua with all his forces continually for more
than a year, and having taken from that city well-nigh all its
territory and strongholds, and having defeated them many times, had so
crushed the city that it could hold out no longer, forasmuch as he had
surrounded it entirely with ramparts occupied by his