Enough of Ugolino.  Count Guido, that mystical, fierce soul from Urbino, seeing danger everywhere, called the whole city to the army.  Florence had allied herself with Lucca and Genoa[32].  Count Guido’s business was to beat them.  He did it[33]; so that by the Assumption of Our Lady in 1292 he had won back again nearly all the lost fortresses, and wrung peace from the Guelph League.  Nevertheless, Pisa was compelled to sacrifice her captain, and to see Genoa established in Corsica and in part of Sardinia; also she had to pay 160,000 lire to Genoa for the Pisan captives, and in Elba to admit Genoese trade free of tax.

Some idea of the glory of Pisa even when she had suffered so much may be had, perhaps, from Tronci’s account of that Festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin as it was kept in August 1293, when the peace had been signed.

The Anziani, Tronci tells us[34], “were used, for a month before the Festa, to publish it in the following manner.  Twenty horses covered all with scarlet, went out of the city bearing twenty youths dressed in fanciful and rich costumes.  The first two carried two banners, one of the Comunita, the other of the Popolo.  Two others carried two lances of silver washed with gold, on which were the Imperial eagles.  Two others bore on their fists two living eagles crowned with gold.  The rest followed in a company, dressed in rich liveries.  There came after, the trumpeters of the Comunita with the silver trumpets, and others with fifes and wind instruments of divers loudness, and they proclaimed the Palii which were to be won on land and water.

“On land, the first prize was of red velvet lined with fur, with a great eagle of silver.  This he received who first reached the goal.  To the second was given a silken stuff of the value of thirty gold florins, to the third in jest was offered a pair of geese and a bunch of garlic.  On the water the race was rowed in little galleys and brigantini.  He who came in first won a Bull covered with scarlet, and fifty scudi; the second a piece of silken stuff with thirty gold florins, the third got only geese and garlic.

“On the first day of August were placed on the towers of the city, certainly some 16,000 in number, three banners on each of them; one with the Imperial eagle, another of the Commune, and the third of the People.  In like manner, on the cupola, facade, and corners of the Duomo, on S. Giovanni, on the Campo Santo and the Campanile, these banners flew not only on the top, but at all the angles of the columns.  The same were seen on all the churches of the city, and on all the palaces, the Palazzo Pubblico, the Palace of the Podesta, the Palazzo del Capitano del Conservatore, the Corte del Consulato di Mare, on the palaces of the Mercati and of the seven Arti.  The Contado followed the example of the city; and thus it continued all the month of August.  And the whole people of every sort made great rejoicing and feasting, to which foreigners were particularly invited.