Siena, the story of a mediaeval commune . ountrymen they commanded that thewalls be torn down in several places, in order that theFlorentines might enter the city wherever they pleased,and, further, they continued, we desire to put a com-mission in every terzo of Siena and to erect a fortressin Camporeggi . . ; and with regard to these mat-ters we desire an answer, which not being satisfac-tory, our army shall fall upon you with the greatestcruelty.* Having dismissed the insolent envoys witha dignified response, the Sienese governors began feverishpreparations of defense, encouraged at every s
Siena, the story of a mediaeval commune . ountrymen they commanded that thewalls be torn down in several places, in order that theFlorentines might enter the city wherever they pleased,and, further, they continued, we desire to put a com-mission in every terzo of Siena and to erect a fortressin Camporeggi . . ; and with regard to these mat-ters we desire an answer, which not being satisfac-tory, our army shall fall upon you with the greatestcruelty.* Having dismissed the insolent envoys witha dignified response, the Sienese governors began feverishpreparations of defense, encouraged at every step by thesplendid spirit shown by Giordano, King Manfreds * My quotations on Montaperti are from two Sienese chronicles publishedby Porn in his Miscellanea Storica Sanese, in 1844. The first goes underthe name of Domenico Aldobrandini; the second under that of NiccoloVentura. They are both of the fifteenth century and are patently elabora-tions of an earlier lost original, probably contemporary or almost contempo-rary with Probable southern boundary of the combined County of Florence-Fiesole ... * The boundary between Florence and Siena as claimed by Florenceand drawn by the treaty (lodo) of 1203 . The CHIANTI BOUNDARY between FLORENCE aud SIENA
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