Note 104 — Chapter II · THE ORIGIN OF THE FLORENTINE COMMUNE.82
Linda Villari translation
Murat., "Antiq.," iii., 1099. A poem attributed to Guido da Pisa narrates the campaign of 1087 carried on by the Pisans, in alliance with Genoa, Amalfi, and Rome, against the Saracens in Africa, and cites the names of four Pisans:—
"Vocat ad se Petrum et Sismundum Principales Consules, Lambertum et Glandulfum Cives cari [clari?] nobiles."
This, however, is a poetical work, and in order to accept it as a proof that these Consuls existed in 1087 it would be necessary to carry back to that year, at least, the first concordia of Bishop Daiberto. This might not be impossible, seeing that he held the bishopric from 1085 to 1092, when he was named archbishop. Vide Pawinski, p. 31, note 3. Leonardo Vernese recounts the expedition to the Balearic Isles (1113–15) in his "Carmen," and says:—
"Inde duo et denos de culmine nobilitatis Constituere viros, quibus est permissa potestas Consulis atque ducis."
But the existence of Consuls at that time has been already proved by other documents. Vide Pawinski, pp. 38–9.