[Footnote 32: In his letter to the archbishop of Prague,
Rienzi thus describes the effect of his elevation on Italy
and on the world: "Did I not restore real peace among the
cities which were distracted by factions? did I not cause
all the citizens, exiled by party violence, with their
wretched wives and children, to be readmitted? had I not
begun to extinguish the factious names (scismatica nomina)
of Guelf and Ghibelline, for which countless thousands had
perished body and soul, under the eyes of their pastors, by
the reduction of the city of Rome and all Italy into one
amicable, peaceful, holy, and united confederacy? the
consecrated standards and banners having been by me
collected and blended together, and, in witness to our holy
association and perfect union, offered up in the presence of
the ambassadors of all the cities of Italy, on the day of
the assumption of our Blessed Lady." p. xlvii. In the
Libellus ad Caesarem: "I received the homage and submission
of all the sovereigns of Apulia, the barons and counts, and
almost all the people of Italy. I was honored by solemn
embassies and letters by the emperor of Constantinople and
the king of England. The queen of Naples submitted herself
and her kingdom to the protection of the tribune. The king
of Hungary, by two solemn embassies, brought his cause
against his queen and his nobles before my tribunal; and I
venture to say further, that the fame of the tribune alarmed
the soldan of Babylon. When the Christian pilgrims to the
sepulchre of our Lord related to the Christian and Jewish
inhabitants of Jerusalem all the yet unheard-of and
wonderful circumstances of the reformation in Rome, both
Jews and Christians celebrated the event with unusual
festivities. When the soldan inquired the cause of these
rejoicings, and received this intelligence about Rome, he
ordered all the havens and cities on the coast to be
fortified." - O.S.]