[91] See chapter vi. p. [171] for description of the frescoes here, and of those above the altar. For Cimabue's Madonna on the right wall of the Transept see chapter v. p. [155].
[92] In 1529 the campanile, which rather gives the impression of a watch-tower, was used by Captain Bernardino da Sassoferrato, as a sure place of refuge when the Prince of Orange entered Assisi with his victorious army. From its heights he kept his enemy at bay for three days, and finally escaped to Spello leaving the city a prey to another despot.
[93] Open to visitors at two o'clock.
[94] Cary's translation. Dante, Inferno, canto xxvii.
[95] St. Bonaventure was born in 1221 at Bagnora in Umbria, and became General of the franciscan order. Dante, in canto xii. of the Paradiso, leaves him to sing the praises of St. Dominic, just as the dominican divine St. Thomas Aquinas had related the story of St. Francis in the preceding canto.
[96] We have used Miss Lockhart's translation of St. Bonaventure's Legenda Santa Francisci.
[97] J. Ruskin, Mornings in Florence, iii. Before the Soldan.
[98] xi. Paradiso, Cary's translation.
[99] Dante, Paradiso, xi., Cary's translation.
[100] A comparison may be made between the long and slender body of the saint here with that in the death of St. Francis in Sta. Croce, where the body is firmly drawn and of more massive proportions.