Battle of Campaldino

Battle of Campaldino
	Part of the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines
	; Fresco in San Gimignano from 1292
Date	11 June 1289
Location	Campaldino, Tuscany; present-day Italy
Result	Decisive Guelph victory
Belligerents
Guelphs Florence; Forces of Charles II of Naples; Aretine exiles; Tuscan Guelph cities; Guelphs from Romagna;	Ghibellines Arezzo; Florentine exiles; Ghibellines from Tuscany and Romagna;
Commanders and leaders
Amerigo di Narbona; Guillaume da Durfort †; Corso Donati; Vieri de' Cerchi; Barone de Mangiadori	Guglielmo Ubertini †; Bonconte I da Montefeltro †; Guido Novello Guidi
Strength
c. 12,000 10,000 infantry; 2,000 cavalry;	10,000 infantry; 800 cavalry
Casualties and losses
300 killed, many wounded	1,700 killed, many wounded, 2,000 captured

The Battle of Campaldino was fought between the Guelphs and Ghibellines on 11 June 1289. Mixed bands of pro-papal Guelf forces of Florence and allies, Pistoia, Lucca, Siena, and Prato, all loosely commanded by the paid condottiero Amerigo di Narbona with his own professional following, met a Ghibelline force from Arezzo including the perhaps reluctant bishop, Guglielmino degli Ubertini, in the plain of Campaldino, which leads from Pratovecchio to Poppi, part of the Tuscan countryside along the upper Arno called the Casentino. One of the combatants on the Guelph side was Dante Alighieri, twenty-four years old at the time.

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