[519] Prof. Del Lungo, with his usual careful research, notes that all the exiled were Grandi. Levi, in repeating the remark (at p. 59), considers this a singular fact, "seeing that the evil germs of discord had then spread through the mass of the citizens." Yet the fact seems easily accounted for by the circumstances related above.
[520] Villani, viii. 40; Compagni, i. 21.
[521] Perrens, "Histoire de Florence," vol. iii. p. 31.
[522] Villani, viii. 43.
[523] Villani, viii. 42.
[524] Signor Levi gives a very clear explanation of the case by distinguishing between various facts confused together by the chroniclers.
[525] "Chronicon Parmense," in Muratori, r. i., ix. 843.
[526] Del Lungo, vol. i. p. 230; Dino Compagni, bk. ii. 8, note 3.
[527] Villani, viii. 43 and 49; Del Lungo, vol. i. p. 206.
[528] Villani, viii. 56. Boccaccio also alludes to Franzesi as "a trader turned knight."