Byways in southern Tuscany . immunities, these being deserved, itwas allowed, by reason of the succession of injuries andsufferings they had endured during the many previousyears. On their side the people agreed that each yearin August they would send to the Cathedral of Siena apalio of scarlet of the value of twenty-five florins, andthis with ceremony, in the charge of four messengers, forSiena loved brave festivities. So having cast in her lotwith Siena, Radicofani remained faithful and received ameasure of protection thereby, and when Pope Pius II,loving Siena as he did, released at her sol
Byways in southern Tuscany . immunities, these being deserved, itwas allowed, by reason of the succession of injuries andsufferings they had endured during the many previousyears. On their side the people agreed that each yearin August they would send to the Cathedral of Siena apalio of scarlet of the value of twenty-five florins, andthis with ceremony, in the charge of four messengers, forSiena loved brave festivities. So having cast in her lotwith Siena, Radicofani remained faithful and received ameasure of protection thereby, and when Pope Pius II,loving Siena as he did, released at her solicitation thelast claims which the Papal States might advance, thegracious act was commemorated in the Palazzo Commu-nale, where the Pope, enthroned in the midst of his car-dinals, is represented as granting this concession to thekneeling podesta of Siena. The great fortezza of Radicofani was now ordered builtwith the help of Lombard masons, and the people, watch-ing the laying of its mighty stones, were comforted by the 130. K,
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