[672] Ibid., VII, 9.
[673] Ibid., II, 10.
[674] Ibid., V, 9.
[675] But we must be careful of our edition if we read her only in English. Some time since Mr. Algar Thorold published a fine translation of The Dialogue of S. Catherine of Siena (Kegan Paul), and here all the evidence needed can be found. But of late a "new edition" (1907) has appeared with the respectable "imprimatur" of the Catholic authorities, but all the evidence against the clergy has been omitted, probably to obtain the "imprimatur." See infra [p. 310, n. 1.] S. Catherine's impeachment of the clergy will be found in the section of her book called Il Trattato delle Lagrime. A summary of the evidence will be found in Mr. E. G. Gardner's excellent S. Catherine of Siena (Dent, 1907), p. 361 et seq. Mr. Gardner adds that "the student ... is compelled to face the fact that the testimony of Boccaccio's Decameron is confirmed by the burning words of a great saint."
[676] Decameron, VI, 10.
[677] Ibid., VI, 2.
[678] Ibid., VII, 3
[679] Ibid., I, 1.
[680] Ibid., III, 1; IX, 2.
[681] Ibid., III, 4.