Chronica Majora

Thursday, April 10, 2003

 
My most humble apologies for the lack of blogging. Blame it on writer's cramp, if you wish.

Anno Domini 1237. In that year, about Michaelmas, the emperor, having quelled the disturbances which had broken out in Germany, and pacified all parties there, entered Italy in great force, with a determination by all means to punish the manifold injuries so often inflicted on him by the citizens of Milan. For when a short time before he returned to Germany, at the time the internal disturbances took place, which the duke of Austria had excited to his own ruin, the Milanese, on hearing of it, as it were pursuing the emperor with inexorable hatred, cruelly murdered his his followers, whom he had placed in the castles which he had gained possession of in Italy; thus daily they provoked the emperor's anger. He, therefore... entreated the pope himself, as head of the Church, to assist him in obtaining his inheritance, to punish the manifold injuries inflicted on him by the Milanese citizens, and to root out the sin of heresy from every infamous city in Italy.... The pope, however, on hearing this, dissembled and proceeded to Rome, being unwilling or unable to assist him.
Matthew 8:58 PM