The Correspondence of Coluccio Salutati (Vol. 1)

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...the continuous incursions of the strongest enemies, she had preserved (1) with wonderful greatness of soul, you arrived unharmed. There, having joined the forces of your wife,
with few troops that rapidly increased;

which were eagerly awaiting your arrival, and with some men flocking from the fatherland, having become greater as you advanced in the manner of a flowing river, you encountered more quickly than expected—in the middle of the narrow passes of that same valley—the person and the army of the illustrious prince and, until that day, everywhere a victor,
the encounter with Otto of Brunswick,

Lord Otto, Duke of Brunswick; and with the camps placed nearby, whence military fires could be seen on both sides and the fanfares of trumpets and drums, of clarions and pipes could be heard; that warlike man—such a man as, if rumor is to be believed, neither his own Germany possesses nor Italy can present alive—mindful of his past glory and trusting in himself and his army,
who offered battle,

sent a glove dripping with blood as an announcement of a martial battle and meeting and as a sign of challenge. What then did your greatness of soul do? It certainly took up the sign of combat with an intrepid mind, and you bravely offered yourself to fight for your justice, whether in single combat or with troops led into the battle line.
and then, repentant or dismayed, withdrew without striking a blow;

When this happened to him beyond what was expected, whether astonished by the very great favor of the inhabitants of the kingdom, whom he clearly saw were adhering to you and your army, or, what is more likely, terrified and prostrated by the unexpected greatness of your soul, fearing at the first watch of the night the onset of the battle which he had so boldly demanded, he departed secretly and silently with his whole army and, conquered by the fame of your name, as if overcome in battle,

Critical apparatus for the text above
3. T and conflicts [conflictibusque]     5. T Chandina     7. M having surrounded [circunventibus] corrected.     9. T
Otonis - Brusincensis     13. alive [vivum]] T one [unum]     16. T blood [sanguinem] - then done [tunc facta]     18. M
about to fight [pugnaturus]     22. M likely [verisimile]     23. T non-promise [impromissionem]

(1) In truth, no historian mentions this intervention of Margaret of Durazzo in the riots that broke out here and there in the realm before Charles entered it: she had remained in Naples with her children near Joanna until the 26th of June, on which day she set out for Rome to join

her husband; Naples Journals in Rer. It. Scr. XXI, 1041; GIANNONE, op. cit. p. 348. It may be, however, that the cited Journals allude to her maneuvers where they say that the Terra di Lavoro was infested by brigands, "who for the most part were from Morcone, the land of Lady Margaret."