[590] Bonaini, "Acta Enrici VII.," ii., lv., lxxxvi., Florence, Cellini, 1877.
[591] Ibid. ii., xcviii., xcix.
[592] Published in the "Delizie degli Eruditi Toscani," and given more completely in Prof. Del Lungo's "Dell' Esilio di Dante," &c., p. 107 and fol.
[593] Villani, ix. 21, 24, 26, 29.
[594] "Ita quod ipsi Florentini possint uti, pro eorum faciendis negotiis et mercationibus, regno vestro, non obstantibus novitatibus antedictis." This letter is dated 1311, and though the month is not indicated, it alludes to Henry's arrival in Genoa as a recent event. Vide Desjardins, "Négociations diplomatiques de la France avec la Toscane," vol. i. p. 12. and fol.
[595] The Bishop of Botrintò gives an account of his strange and perilous journey in his work, "De Henrici VII. imperatoris itinere italico." This is to be found in Muratori, R. I., and has been recently republished by Doctor Heyck (Innsbrück, 1888).
[596] Villani, ix. 26–29; Del Lungo, p. 632.
[597] Villani, ix. 33. The fact of making the Pazzi knights by way of compensation, serves to prove that the title of cavaliere was already losing its former significance. For, at the close of the thirteenth century, when used as a sign of nobility, possession of this title helped to exclude a man from the Government.
[598] Perrens, vol. iii. p. 145.
[599] This letter was written about the end of 1310 and beginning of 1311. It is No. v. of the Fraticelli edition.