Innocent IV. and driven him into the capital for shelter. Aldobrandino being in want of money to carry on the war, borrowed it of the Florentines, leaving his brother in pledge. His end and succession are also truly related in the text. I should add, that he killed the Count of Celano, to which Ariosto has also alluded.
And all the, cities which ’twixt Tronto are,
And green Isauro’s stream, from mount to main.
Stanza xxxvii. lines 3 and 4.
This space would, I believe, comprehend the old Exarchate of Ravenna.
In good Rinaldo equal worth shall shine.
Stanza xxxviii. line 1.
Rinaldo, the son of Azzo, who was poisoned at Naples, where he was confined by Frederic II.
Young Obyton, shall fill his grandsire’s place.
Stanza xxxviii. last line.
Obizzo, natural son of the last Rinaldo, was legitimated by Pope Innocent III. with the consent of the emperor, and succeeded to the inheritance of Ferrara. He conquered Modena and Reggio.
Sixth of the name, his Azo rears upright.
Stanza xxxix. line 5.
In a partial crusade, in the time of Charles II. king of the two Sicilies, Azzo was made standard-bearer, and, for his services, obtained the daughter of that king in matrimony.
