[309] Copy in the MS. Vita of the Biblioteca della Missione.
[310] From twenty-two conclusions concerning Catherine and her circle, constituting one of the papers in the volume, Documenti, etc., of the University Library. They were evidently written after 1675 and before 1737 (Catherine is “Beata” throughout), but are, wherever I have been able to test them, as a rule completely right, and never entirely wrong. It is certainly somewhat strange that Argentina should, as is there stated, have “continued in the said Hospital, and was living in it still in 1523,” and should have “similarly continued to be the servant of the Priest Cattaneo (Marabotto).” Still, she may have slept at the Hospital and worked at Marabotto’s. I had thought of concluding from this that Marabotto had been given Catherine’s house in the Hospital, after Don Carenzio’s death there. But the apparently complete absence of any mention of Marabotto in the Hospital books, after July 1512, makes me shrink from doing so.
[311] I am proud of this important discovery, since even Giovo had to leave a blank for this date in his Chapter IV of Part I of his MS. Vita, in the Biblioteca della Missione, written in 1675. I found the date amongst some notes and copies, in a sprawly handwriting, not Giovo’s, but the same which copied out the entry as to Carenzio’s funeral expenses. It is true that in Marabotto’s case this writer gives no proof or document; yet there is no reason for distrusting his assertion.
[312] Copy from Hospital Cartulary in MS. Vita of the Biblioteca della Missione Urbana: “1511, 7 Julii: Hereditas quondam Caterinetae Adurnae, pro Maria, olim famula ipsius et filia Hospitalis, pro legato facto dictae Mariae per dictam q(uondam) Caterinetam, £50.—Maria praedicta pro D. P. Cattaneo Marabotto, qui habuit curam guarnimentorum ipsius Mariae, dedicatae in Monasterio Sanctae Brigidae, £50.”—I take these two successive entries to refer to two successive stages of the same transaction, and to but one and the same sum.
[313] From the documents given in the MS. Vita of the Biblioteca della Missione Urbana.
[314] My quotations from this letter are all taken from Giuseppe Morro’s careful address on Vernazza, published in Inaugurazione della Statua d’Ettore Vernazza, Genova, 1867, pp. 5-31. It stands in extenso in the fine edition of his daughter’s works: Opere Spirituale della Ven. Madre Donna Battista Vernazza, 6 vols., Genoa, 1755; Vol. VI, Letter XXV.
[315] The document is given in fall, and carefully analyzed, in Inaugurazione, etc., pp. 61-70.
[316] Battista’s letter, as quoted in Inaugurazione, p. 16.
[317] Inaugurazione, pp. 17, 18.
[318] Printed in Inaugurazione, pp. 71-73.