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326 A HISTORY OF VERONA
June, 1388, in favour of his eldest son. But this step was quite
useless. Both Venice and Milan carried on the war with the
utmost vigour, till on 2Ist November Francesco II. yielded
his dominions to Gian Galeazzo, who, in spite of having
promised him life and liberty, made him and his father
prisoners a few days later.
Francesco the Elder remained in prison till his death in
October, 1393, but Francesco II. escaped, and travelled half
over Europe, collecting men and money to recover his
dominions.' At Munich Francesco met Guglielmo della Scala,
the sole surviving son of Cangrande II. Guglielmo, though
illegitimate, had inherited all the valour and charm of his great
ancestors, and persuaded Francesco to try and drive the
Visconti from Verona as well as from Padua. By June, 1390,
Francesco had collected a considerable force, and accordingly
returned to Italy. Hardly had he crossed the frontier before
he was met by envoys from Samaritana da Polenta imploring
him to recover Verona for her little son Canfrancesco, and at
her request he displayed the Scaligeri banner. Padua he
surprised without any difficulty on i9th June, and a few days
later the whole district was cleared of the Milanese.
All plans for the liberation of Verona, however, were
stultified by the precipitate action of the Veronese themselves.
On 22nd June, elated by Francesco's success at Padua, they
rose, and seized the whole city, with the exception of the citadel
which Gian Galeazzo had built. But dissensions at once broke
out among the rebels. The nobles wanted to found a republic,
the populace, fearing that this would mean an oligarchy, preferred
a despot. The two parties came to blows, the people
won, and sent to fetch Antonio's little son, Canfrancesco.
Meanwhile Ugolotto Biancardo, who had recently entered the
Visconti service, and was hurrying up from Bologna to attack
Padua, heard of the revolt at Verona, and at once turned aside
to that city. On the evening of the 25th he entered the citadel
without any of the rebels being aware of his arrival. Next
'Francesco was accompanied by his wife Taddea, and together they
visited Provence, Avignon, Bavaria and even Bosnia. Andrea Gataro has left an
enthralling narrative of their wanderings and adventures by land and sea.
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