[177] Coppi, Annali, memorie, etc., pp. 108-114. I have spared my readers some of the details of “cette existence d’expiation.” Not many of us can look upon these things with the eyes of M. J.-K. Huysmans, in his Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam: “Elle fut, en somme, un fruit de souffrance,” he writes of Lydwine, whose life was very like a prolonged version of Fina’s, “que Dieu écrasa et pressura jusqu’à ce qu’il en eût exprimé le dernier suc; l’écale était vide lorsqu’elle mourut; Dieu allait confier à d’autres de ses filles le terrible fardeau qu’elle avait laissé; elle avait pris, elle-même, la succession d’autres saintes et d’autres saintes allaient, à leur tour, hériter d’elle” (p. 291).
[178] Pecori, p. 113.
[179] In May 1899, San Gimignano kept the sixth centenary of Dante’s embassy, and it was on this occasion that the real date 1300 (instead of 1299, as hitherto supposed) was discovered.
[180] Rossetti’s translation.
[181] Sonnet 33 in Navone’s edition.
[182] Cronachetta di San Gimignano, 163-171.
[183] Matteo Villani, iii. 22, 46, 55, 69: Pecori, pp. 168-171.
[184] Cronachetta, 8-21.
[185] iii. 73.
[186] The conditions of this final submission are given in full in Pecori, pp. 174-179.