[101] As the hated enemies of the Baglioni the Fiumi are often mentioned in the chronicles of Matarazzo, and they played an important part in the history of their native city. They were Counts of Sterpeto, and the village of that name on the hill to the west of Assisi above the banks of the Chiaggio still belongs to the family.
[102] One of the first of the franciscans was Rufino, a nephew of Count Favorino's, whose holiness was such that in speaking of him to the other brethren St. Francis would call him St. Rufino.
[103] Bernhard Berenson, "Central Italian painters of the Renaissance," p. 86.
[104] Goethe's Werke, Italiänische Reise, I., vol. 27, pp. 184, et seq., J. G. Cotta, 1829.
[105] The key is obtained from the Canonico Modestini's house, No. 27a Via S. Paolo.
[106] The legend that St. Francis was born in a stable only dates from the fifteenth century and arose out of the desire of the franciscans to make his life resemble that of Christ. The site of this stable, which is now a chapel, is of no interest whatever.
[107] See Story of Perugia (mediæval series), p. 211, for the legend of their origin in that town.
[108] The chapel is also called the Chiesa di S. Caterina because the members of that confraternity have charge of it. It is often open, but should it be closed, there is always some one about ready to obtain the key from the house in the same street Via Superba, now Via Principe di Napoli, No. 12, opposite Palazzo Bernabei.
[109] See Signor Alfonso Brizi's Loggia dei Maestri Comacini in Assisi, No. 1, April 185, of the Atti dell' Accademia Properziana del Subasio in Assisi.
[110] Both the key of San Rufinuccio and San Lorenzo can be obtained through the sacristan of the Cathedral.