Editing Ciompi Revolt (section)

===Rising taxes===
In Florence in 1371, unequal taxation was the norm; in particular, the highlanders paid three times more in taxes than plain dwellers.<ref name=creating />{{rp|80}} This increase in taxation was not due to Florence's wars with [[Pisa]] from 1362–1364, or to the revolt of [[San Miniato]] from 1369–1370, but from the need to pay for increased military forces to push back against the [[Ubaldini]] and their allies. The Ubaldini were a feudal family who had strong influences over the peasants living in the Alpi Fiorentine, and Florence wished to break these ties for control in the north. Adding to the need for more military forces was the increased crime and attacks directed at merchants and at pilgrims passing through Florence that developed after the Black Death.<ref name=creating />{{rp|81}} To pay these militias, however, Florence was getting deeper in debt, and the oligarchy burdened those living in the countryside with increasing taxation.<ref name=creating />{{rp|107}} As taxes kept on increasing, the highlanders chose to flee, worsening a labour shortage, already present after the Black Death.<ref name=creating />{{rp|108}} Furthermore, there were increasing differences in wealth between the ''popolo minuto'' and the patriciates.<ref name=laboring />{{rp|129}} In fact, before the ''ciompi'', there were already rebellions organized by labourers, such as the 9 October 1343 revolt by wool workers led by the Sienese [[Aldobrando di Ciecharino]], who lived in Florence.<ref name=laboring />{{rp|139}}