N. 8. - Inscription to commemorate the SESTO DI BORGO, the section of the Borgo, put up at the TOWER DEI BALDOVINETTI having its entrance from Borgo SS. Apostoli N. 2.
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Già eran Gualterotti ed Importuni, Ed ancor saria Borgo più quieto, Se di nuovi vicin fosser digiuni. DANTE, Paradiso, XVI, 133–135. In Borgo yet the Gualterotti dwelt And Importuni; well for its repose, Had it still lack’d of newer neighbourhood. H. F. Cary’s translation.
The Gualterotti and the Importuni lived in the district or sesto of the City called Borgo, meaning Village. New families coming to Florence from the surrounding country built their houses just outside the cerchio (city-wall), and when the town had thus grown larger and a new and wider cerchio or wall was built, it took in all those new houses—the division still retaining the name of Borgo. Thus also, when Fiesole was conquered by the Florentines and destroyed in 1010 and the Fiesolans were permitted to become Florentines, they erected their houses just outside the Antica Cerchia. Cacciaguida here deplores the introduction of new families, to whose mixture with the primitive stock he attributes their degeneracy and disgrace.