[1.] All this took place with prodigious rapidity. The dimensions of the Basilica of Assisi, the plans of which were made in 1228, no more permits it to be considered as a conventual chapel than Santa-Croce in Florence, San Francesco in Sienna, or the Basilica San Antonio at Padua, monuments commenced between 1230 and 1240. Already before 1245 one party of the episcopate utters a cry of alarm, in which he speaks of nothing less than of closing the door of the secular churches, which have become useless. He complains with incredible bitterness that the Minor and Preaching Friars have absolutely supplanted the parochial clergy. This letter may be found in Pierre de la Vigne, addressed at once to Frederick II. and the Council of Lyons: Epistolæ, Basle, 1740, 2 vols., vol. i., pp. 220-222. It is much to be desired that a critical text should be given. See also the satire against the two new Orders, done in rhyme about 1242 by Pierre de la Vigne, and of which, allowing for possible exaggerations, the greater number of the incidents cannot have been invented: E. du Méril, Poésies pop. lat., pp. 153-177, Paris, 8vo, 1847.
[2.] And not of the 29th, as Sbaralea will have it. Bull. fr., vol. i., n. 10. Horoy, vol. iv., col. 129; the original, still in the archives of Assisi, bears the title: Datum Anagnie 11 Kalendas Aprilis pontificatus nostri anno sexto.
[3.] Potthast, 6809; Horoy, iv., col. 129. See also the bull Ecce Venit Deus of July 14, 1227; L. Auvray: Registres de Grégoire IX., no. 129; cf. 153; Potthast, 8027 and 8028, 8189.
[4.] He had finished his mission as legate in Lombardy toward the close of September, 1221 (see his register; cf. Böhmer, Acta imp. sel. doc., 951). In the spring of 1222 we find him continually near the pope at Anagni, Veroli, Alatri (Potthast, 6807, 6812, 6849). The Holy See had still at that time a marked predilection for the Preachers; the very trite privilege of power to celebrate the offices in times of interdict had been accorded them March 7, 1222, but instead of the formula usual in such cases, a revised form had been made expressly for them, with a handsome eulogy. Ripolli, Bull. Præd., t. i., p. 15.
[5.] 2 Cel., 3, 93: Subtrahebat se a consortio fratrum.
[6.] It is needless to say that local traditions, in this case, though as to detail they must be accepted only with great reserve, yet on the whole are surely true. The geography of St. Francis's life is yet to be made.
[7.] 2 Cel., 3, 59; Bon., 60; Conform., 122b, 2.
[8.] 2 Cel., 3, 5; Spec., 12a; Conform., 169b, 2.
[9.] Eccl., 6. Vide Liebermann's text, Mon. Germ. hist. Script., t. 28, p. 663.
[10.] 2 Cel., 3, 93; Bon., 104 and 105; Conform., 101a, 2.