[267] Marchionni di Coppo Stefani, "Stor. fior.," rubric 120.
[268] Villani and other Florentine chroniclers.
[269] The figures given by Florentine chroniclers are never exact, and must be therefore regarded as approximate ones only.
[270] Here is an instance extracted from a law of 1284: "Item quod nullus presumat consulere, vel arengare super aliquo quod non sit principaliter propositum per dominum Potestatem, vel aliquem loco sui. Et qui contrafacerit, in soldos sexaginta florenorum parvorum vice qualibet puniatur, et plus et minus ad voluntatem domini Potestatis. Et quicquid dictum vel consultum contra propositionem, non valeat, nec teneat." "Consigli Maggiori, Provvisioni e Registri," i., sheets 12 retro. Archivio di Stato, Florence.
[271] Too coarse to be translated.—Translator's note.
[272] Villani, vi. 78.
[273] Aldobrandini, "Chroniche," p. 9; Paoli, "La battaglia di Montaperti," p. 46.
[274] In the cathedral of Sienna certain poles are shown traditionally believed to have belonged to the Florentine Carroccio. But Siennese scholars now justly maintain that these poles formed part of their own Carroccio instead.
[275] Paoli, op. cit., p. 58.
[276] Sismondi, after comparison of the chroniclers' accounts, raises the number of killed to 10,000 and the wounded to the same figure.