Provenzali

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In the Heaven of Mercury, Justinian, having concluded the account of the events of the imperial eagle, alludes to the small story of the viscount Romeo at the court of the Count of Provence. In this context he recalls that the Provenzali did not profit from their wickedness, because after the death of the count they passed under Angevin rule, less benevolent than the previous one. The four daughters of Raimondo married European sovereigns: Margherita to Louis IX of France, Eleonora to Henry III of England, Sancia to Richard of Cornwall, and Beatrice, heiress of the county, to Charles I of Anjou. Dante names the Provenzali as a people whose wicked deeds turned against themselves, according to the traditional interpretation that reads them as envious of others' good.