A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . cily to the house of they remained the leaders of the Guelfic jiarty, which wasat one in its hatred of (Jerman domination. Their opponents werethe Gliibellines, the party which sought to introduce peace andorder by the restoration of the imperial overloixlship; at their headstood the Aragonese kings of Sicily. Italy became the scene of imending jiarty was especially chaotic. There the GuelficMilan and Cremona, were pitted against those groujicdtua and Verona. These struggl
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . cily to the house of they remained the leaders of the Guelfic jiarty, which wasat one in its hatred of (Jerman domination. Their opponents werethe Gliibellines, the party which sought to introduce peace andorder by the restoration of the imperial overloixlship; at their headstood the Aragonese kings of Sicily. Italy became the scene of imending jiarty was especially chaotic. There the GuelficMilan and Cremona, were pitted against those groujicdtua and Verona. These struggles caused weighty political andsocial changes. The nobility succundied to the powei-ful craft-guilds, who reorganized the town government on a democratic l) the crafts, in order to f. How their pursuits undisturbed, trans- The state ofcities, led byaround .Man- CONFUSION IN ITALY. 325 ferred the administration to a nobleman of military reputation,whence resulted the erection of a military desjjotism foundetl on apopular basis. The former allegiance of Loni hardy to the German. Ill,. 11.,. ~ Dante. Portrait by (iiotto (r_7(i (i). After an ai]iiarelle by Mussiiii. (Berlin.) empire fell entirely into abeyance. In Tuscany the condition ofaffairs was similar. Prosjierous Florence stood at the iiead of theGuelfs, whereas declining Iisa headed the Ghibellines. But mat^ 326 GERMANY TRANSFORMED, 1272-13^7. ters were in a particularly bad coudition in the Papal States. Sincetlie fall of Boniface VII., and the absence of Clement V. in France,every semblance of order had left them. Petty dynasties raisedindependent principalities, while in Rome itself the antagonism ofthe mighty houses of Colonna and Orsini unchained a furious civil
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