[319] The present, second and much larger and detached SS. Annunziata, on the square of that name, was not built (for the Capuchins) till 1587. In Giuliano’s and Catherine’s Wills of 1494, 1498, and 1506, the Hospital Church occurs indifferently as “Church of the Annunciation of the Order of Friars Minor of the Observance” with and without the addition of “adjoining the Hospital,” or “adjoining the Hospital of Pammatone.”
[320] This was a Cistercian Convent, founded in the twelfth century, outside one of the Genoese gates. Only its Chapel survived the destruction of the Convent at the time of the Revolutionary secularization. And even this Chapel was in January 1903 in process of demolition, to make room for the new Via Venti Settembre.
[321] The three daughters’ names in Religion all occur in a document of the Bank of St. George printed in Inaugurazione, p. 79.
[322] Inaugurazione, p. 18, quoting Battista’s letter of 1581.
[323] Inaugurazione, pp. 19, 20.
[324] I derive this particular from Professore G. Morro’s Inaugurazione, p. 20.
[325] Inaugurazione, p. 20.
[326] Inaugurazione, p. 21.
[327] Inaugurazione, pp. 21, 22. Battista’s account would lead one to place that last Communion on the Feast itself; but the various inscriptions erected by the most careful Committee of 1867, shows that it occurred really on the Eve. See Inaugurazione, pp. 37; 39, 40. One more instance of a slight displacement of date effected by a (no doubt unconscious) desire to find a full synchronism between the Feast of the Baptist and the final Communion of one so devoted to that Saint. The Committee evidently shrank from interpreting her “three days after”: it may evidently mean either the 26th or the 27th.
[328] As to the older monuments, see Inaugurazione, p. 5. An excellent photograph of Varni’s statue forms the title-picture to this publication.