Note 36 — Chapter I · THE ORIGIN OF FLORENCE.

Two very short records, or rather notes, were added by another hand where the gap occurs, namely: "Pope Adrian V., born of the Fiesco family of Genoa, 1276, reigned as Pope thirty days; the Chair vacant twenty-eight days. Pope Innocent VI. elected, who came from Portugal." The second note is certainly erroneous. Innocent VI. (Etienne d'Albert) was a Frenchman of Limousin birth, and was raised to the Papacy in 1352. But Adrian's successor was John XXI., a Portuguese. The author mistook Johannes (probably written in an abbreviated form) for Innocentius, XXI. for VI. Even in other chronicles the two records stand together, and almost in the same words, but without the same blunder.