[157] The story of Anselmo and Angelica is inserted in the Annali Senesi under 1395, and is told by Sermini and Ilcino. That of Ippolito and Cangenova (which from the mention of Messer Reame should, if historical, be referred to the same epoch) is related by Olinda in Bargagli’s Trattenimenti.
[158] The sole value—and that is not much—of Fortini’s work lies in such little transcripts from Sienese life in the Cinquecento. The rest is sheer pornography, and the man’s life was as vile as his novels are filthy.
[159] Cf. Alessio, op. cit. pp. 103, 104.
[160] Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, iii. p. 68.
[161] Landucci, Sacra Leccetana Selva, pp. 76-79.
[162] Assempro xl. It was this Frate Bandino who founded the convent of Sant’ Agostino in Siena.
[163] Assempro xli. is the life of Niccolò Tini.
[164] Letter 326, written from Rome, December 15th, 1378.
[165] Mr Heywood, in his account of these frescoes (The Ensamples of Fra Filippo, pp. 227, 228), appears to have missed this, the essential point of the allegory.
[166] Assempro xxiv.