But the Guelphs were not inactive for long and their reaction, although late, was energetic. And it was successful, we can say, when Federico from Montefeltro, rushed to Urbino to enlist new militias, in 1321, was killed. The death of their leader meant for the Ghibellines of Marca a serious loss, so much that, within a short time, also Jesi returned in the hands of the Guelphs. To take possession of our city, by chance, was just Tano Baligani who, once on fire and irreducible Ghibelline, now become one of the most prominent leaders of the Guelphs.
What were the reasons that had induced Baligani to pass into the adversarial field, perhaps to re-enter in the good graces of the pontiff, as Pietro Grizio supposes, it is a fact that he, a man of perspicacious ingenuity and brave in arms, had
