[570] Villani, viii. 74; Del Lungo, pp. 578–9.

[571] These Catalans, after fighting the Moors in Spain, scattered to different parts of the world, and refused to return to their own country.

[572] Villani, viii. 87.

[573] This law is placed under rubric lxxxiii. of the enactments. Vide Giudici, "Storia dei Comuni Italiani," vol. iii. p. 119 and fol. Florence, Le Monnier, 1864–66.

[574] Other clauses tending to increase the rigour of this law were added on to it in 1307, 1309, and 1324, as may be seen in Bonaini's edition, published in the "Archivio Storico Italiano," new series, vol. i., 1885.

[575] Dino Compagni, iii. 18, p. 326.

[576] Villani, viii. 89.

[577] Ibid.

[578] Ibid. viii. 96.

[579] Villani, viii. 96; Dino Compagni, iii. 20, 21.