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  • On Guelfs and Ghibellines

  • from Texts
  • Bartolus of Sassoferrato, University of Cambridge
  • Edited and translated by George Garnett, University of Oxford, Magnus Ryan, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Bartolus of Sassoferrato
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 3-15

  • Summary

    In this treatise, Bartolus of Sassoferrato explores the phenomenon of factionalism in the fourteenth-century Italian city republics. He gives an account of the local nomenclature of Guelfs and Ghibellines, relating these labels historically to the papal and imperial camps in the contested region of northern Italy. He explains that, nowadays, such labels have only local relevance, not ideological significance. He then analyses the legality of joining such parties, concluding that if the reason for doing so is to uphold the common good, it is lawful.

  • (d) - Florence

  • from 15 - Northern Italy
  • David Abulafia, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    21 October 1999, pp 479-497

  • Summary

    In the thirteenth century, Florence emerged as the leading commercial and banking centr e of western Europe. The acquisition of Capraia on the Arno, and the seizure of Montemurlo by Florence's ally, Count Guido Guerra, provoked hostilities with Pistoia. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, Florence appears to have had only one merchant guild, the Arte della Calimala, made up of those who dealt in this commodity, though there were also some craft corporations. From being a small town, dominated by an exclusive, clannish and combative aristocracy, Florence was turning into a city, considerable numbers of whose inhabitants, represented in the artisan and merchant corporations, were gaining in wealth and aspiring to a share of political power. In 1273, during the pope's visit to Florence, peace was ceremonially made between the city's Guelfs and Ghibellines in accordance with this planned pacification.