War of the Sicilian Vespers

The War of the Sicilian Vespers was a conflict waged by several medieval European kingdoms over control of Sicily from 1282 to 1302. The war, which started with the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers, was fought over competing dynastic claims to the throne of Sicily and grew to involve the Crown of Aragon, the Angevin Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of France, and the papacy.

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E una canzonetta che dice: "Deh! come gli e gran pietate delle donne di Messina, veggendole scapigliate por tare pietre et calcina! Iddio li dia briga et travaglia a chi Messina vuole guastare."
- Ah! how pitiful it is to see the dames of Messina, with dishevelled hair, bearing stones and mortar! ... God confound him, who seeks to lay waste Messina!
- A "fragment of a song" commemorating the defence of Messina. Source: Giovanni Villani, bk. 7, ch. 67, p. 283. Reported in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1882), p. 340

The monarchy of Naples, so badly acquired, was not wholly overthrown; but it was, at least, mutilated and humbled.
- Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York, 1882), p. 342