The Story of Assisi

by Lina Duff Gordon

[4] See Cristofani, Storia d'Assisi, p. 42 for text of the MS.

[5] Dante, Inferno, xix. p. 115. Translated by John Milton.

[6] See Les Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Academie de Bruxelles (t. xxiii. pp. 29, 33); also Un nouveau Chapitre de la Vie de S. François d'Assise, par Paul Sabatier.

[7] Perugia was, on the whole, faithful to the Guelph cause. She was patronised by the Popes on account of her strong position overlooking the Tiber, and when inclined she freely acknowledged them as her masters but at the same time she was careful to guard her independence.

[8] Cronaca Graziani, p. 522.

[9] Cronaca Graziani, pp. 512 and 513.

[10] Cronaca Graziani, p. 513.

[11] Cronaca Graziani, p. 514, note 1.

[12] For a full account of the Baglioni see the sixteenth-century chronicle of Matarazzo (Archivio Storico Italiano, vol. xvi. part ii.), who has immortalised their crimes in classic language; and also The Story of Perugia (Mediæval Towns Series, J. M. Dent & Co.).

[13] Cronaca Matarazzo, p. 75.