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Excerpt from Dante and the Divine Comedy: Studies and Notes
Apulia or Naples, a battle was fought which showed that a new political power had arisen in Western Christendom and was thencefor ward to be a potent factor in the Italian peninsula. Until then, Italy had been a sphere of German in?uence Her Emperors were first of all kings of Germany._ They were of German blood and elected by German princes and prelates. German troops had decided her battles. Her party names of Guelf and Ghibelline had been imported from beyond the Alps. Her noble houses, as their Teutonic names so often declared, were of German origin. Her counts and marquises pointed by their titles, if not always by their loyalty, to the Emperor as their lord, and reminded men that Italy was part of that Holy Roman Empire which still in theory extended from the northern to the southern seas.
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