[580] Dino Compagni, iii. 20, note 29; Del Lungo, Introduction, p. 607. Prof. Del Lungo, the editor of these documents, does not believe that Corso was favourable at that time to the exiles and Ghibellines. Besides, the latter were no longer the genuine Ghibellines of older days. Therefore the Signory could have no motive for deceiving their friends, the Lucchese, and their letters are likewise corroborated by the previous events we have described.
[581] Villani, viii. 100.
[582] Villani, iii. 118, 119.
[583] Compagni, "Cronica," iii. 35, note. 26.
[584] Villani, ix. 10.
[585] Villani, ix. 11.
[586] Compagni, iii. 32.
[587] Villani, ix. 12.
[588] Ibid. ix. 18.
[589] Vide the letter sent by Florence, June 17, 1311, in Gregorovius (3rd edition), vol. vi. p. 39, note 2.