[324] Villani, vii. 98; Malespini, ccxliii.
[325] Some of the chroniclers assert that the archbishop hoped to extract large sums of money from his captives before making an end of them.
[326] For details of the Pisan war with Genoa and Florence, vide "Storie e Cronache Pisane," edited by Bonaini and others in vol. vi. (pts. i. and ii.) of the "Archivio Storico Italiano"; Canale, "Nuova Istoria della Repubblica di Genova"; Villani; Flaminio dal Borgo; Muratori Script., vol. xv.; Sismondi; "Hist. des Rep. It.," T. ii. chap. 8.
[327] An order of knighthood limited to the nobility.
[328] G. Villani, Dino Compagni, and the other Florentine chroniclers.
[329] Villani, Compagni, Ammirato, and the Pisan historians previously quoted.
[330] Villani, vii. 99; Vasari, "Vita di Arnolfo"; Ammirato (Florence: Batelli and Co., 1846), vol. i. pp. 310–11.
[331] Ammirato, vol. i. p. 337.
[332] Vide Note A at the end of this chapter.
[333] Prof. P. Santini has treated of this question in his article entitled "Condizione personale degli abitanti del contado nel secolo xiii.," "Arch. Stor. It." (Series iv. vol. xvii. p. 178 and fol.). He justly remarks that there is no basis of comparison between the Bolognese law of 1256 and the Florentine law of 1289, seeing that they relate to persons of a different class and to two different periods of the movement set on foot in every commune for ameliorating the conditions of the inhabitants of the contado (p. 188 and fol.).