Note 1 — XLIX Here it is told of a physician of Toulouse and how he took to wife a niece of the Archbishop of Toulouse

Master Francis, son of Master Accorso of the city of Bologna,1 when he returned from England, where he had long sojourned, put this problem to the municipality of Bologna, and said: the father of a family left his town in poverty and abandoned his sons, and went into remote parts. After a certain time, he saw some men of his own country. Prompted by love of his children, he questioned them, and they replied: Messer, your children have had great gains, and are grown rich. When he heard this, he decided to depart and returned home. He found his sons rich. He asked them to reinstate him in his possessions as their father and lord. The sons refused, saying: father, we have earned this: it has naught to do with you. So that there came about a law-suit.