TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Abbreviations .... 

 I. Introduction . 



Italy and the Visconti 



II. 



III. 



IV. 



I. 



2. 



3- 

 4- 



The 



Italy in tlie Fourteenth Century 

 Lombardy and Tuscany in the Fourteenth 

 Century ....... 



The Companies of Adventure 



The House of Visconti ..... 



V. 



VI. 



VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XL 



XIL 



XIII. 



Appendix A: 

 Appendix B : 



Considerations which determined the 

 Alliance . 

 Lionel's Journey to Italy 



1. Dover to Paris 



2. Paris to Chambery 



3. Chambery to Pavia 



4. Pavia to Milan 



Lionel and Violante 



1. Lionel 



2. Violante 



The Wedding 



The Banquet 



Petrarch at the Banquet . 



Lionel's Remaining Life 



Lionel's Death and Burial 



Lionel's Will 



Despenser and the Visconti 



Violante's Later Life . 



Lionel's Name and Title 



Chaucer's Alaunts 



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