[7] “Analecta Francescana,” vol. iii. p. 283. Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi) 1897, 4to.
[8] “Speculum Perfectionis,” p. vi., Paris, 1898. But then he is only following Alvisi.
[9] “Le Mistiche Nozze di Frate Francesco con Madonna Povertà,” Florence, Olschki, 1898, pp. 58. I have since seen his Noterelle Francescane, in the “Giornale Dantesco” (An. ix., Quad, iii.) in which he modifies his opinion.
[10] “Vita del Beato Giovanni da Parma,” 2nd Edition. Quaracchi, 1900, pp. 186.
[11] Cf. the “Miscellanea Francescana,” vol. vii. p. 182.
[12] Add to all this that the “Sacrum Commercium” contains not a single citation from the Office of St Francis—which it is natural to suppose that the imaginative writer would have here and there availed himself of—and it seems to me that the date of 1227 is proved with something like certainty, and the date of 1247 excluded beyond a doubt.
[13] Op. cit. p. xii. and p. 41 et ss.
[14] The “Arbor Vitæ Crucifixi Jesu,” Venice, 1485, fol.
[15] “Chronica Fratris Salimbene Parmensis.” Parma, 1857, 4to, pp. xiv.-424.
[16] Let me here render him public thanks for his courteous permission to do so, and make due public acknowledgment of my indebtedness to his critical preface. Had it not been for this scholarly work I must needs have spent months in puzzling out for myself the crabbed hands and crooked abbreviations of three or four fourteenth-century scribes.