Byways in southern Tuscany . demned to prison or i3 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY exile. Work upon the fortress then went on as before,and was so urgently pressed that within a year it wascompleted. The independence of Massa was now gone, the de-creased population suffered under intolerable taxation, andthe plague of 1348 came to further enfeeble them. Onewonders that any spirit of defiance survived in a people sooppressed, but agreeing together that it was better to diein arms than to drag on an existence so miserable, theyrose once more against Siena, drove out her podestd, andattacked her fort
Byways in southern Tuscany . demned to prison or i3 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY exile. Work upon the fortress then went on as before,and was so urgently pressed that within a year it wascompleted. The independence of Massa was now gone, the de-creased population suffered under intolerable taxation, andthe plague of 1348 came to further enfeeble them. Onewonders that any spirit of defiance survived in a people sooppressed, but agreeing together that it was better to diein arms than to drag on an existence so miserable, theyrose once more against Siena, drove out her podestd, andattacked her fortress on the hill. This proved too strongto be taken by assault, and they began to burrow des-perately under the foundations, in the hope of compassingits destruction in that way. At this, Siena, in alarm forher garrison, sent a force against them, and the miserableMassetani, broken in battle below the walls, saw theircity entered by a pitiless soldiery who set fire where theycould, and destroying and plundering as they went,. r-:.7- *» v.;r>
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