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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
Few nations can rival Italy in the surpassing interest of her annals. Her great capital has not ceased to influence mankind for two thousand years; and in the Middle Ages its power was twofold; all Western Christendom bowed before the Roman Empire and the Roman Church. But one and the same firmament could not hold these two great lights; the Pope and Emperor were grappling together in a deadly struggle for nearly two hundred years after 1076, though their warfare was sometimes broken by a truce.
page 257 note * This charming mansion could have belonged to none but the Emperor Frederick, who was at Pisa about this time.
page 261 note * This must have been the friar who, according to Joinville, preached to St. Louis at Hyères on his return from the Crusade.
page 262 note * Isa. xxiii. 15, “Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king.”
page 262 note † The passage referred to must be the last two verses of Isa. xxxi.
page 264 note * John of Parma was one of the most famous Generals of the Franciscan Order.
page 265 note * We are there told that Christ sent His disciples to prepare His meal.
page 268 note * After Frederick the Second, no Emperor was master at once of the kingdoms of Germany, Italy, and Burgundy.
page 272 note * Dante, places Asdente in hell, in “Inferno,” xxGoogle Scholar.
page 273 note * Pateclo was one of the earliest of Italian poets.
page 276 note * This is the sinner seen by Dante in the “Inferno,” Canto 27.