issued letters for this crusade in 1255.

It was preached next year by the Archbishop of Ravenna.
[2] See Appendix, No.

I.
Ezzelino's cruelty was no mere Berserkir fury or Lycanthropia coming over him in gusts and leaving him exhausted.

It was steady and continuous.

In his madness, if such we may call this inhumanity, there was method; he used it to the end of the consolidation of his tyranny.
Yet, inasmuch as it passed all limits and prepared his downfall, it may be said to have obtained over his nature the mastery of an insane appetite.