[4.] Name of the highest point on the plateau. Hardly three-quarters of an hour from the monastery, and not two hours and a half, as these worthy anchorites believed. This is said for the benefit of tourists ... and pilgrims.
[5.] The forest has been preserved as a relic. Alexander IV. fulminated excommunication against whomever should cut down the firs of Verna. As to the birds, it is enough to pass a day at the monastery to be amazed at their number and variety. M. C. Beni has begun at Stia (in Casentino) an ornithological collection which already includes more than five hundred and fifty varieties.
[6.] 1 Cel., 91; Bon., 188; Fior. i., consid.
[7.] Fior. i., consid.; Conform., 176b, 1.
[8.] Cel., 2, 15; Bon., 100. Fior. i., consid.
[9.] Bon., 118. Fior. i., consid.
[10.] 2 Cel., 100.
[11.] Fior. ii., consid.
[12.] The ruins of the castle of Chiusi are three quarters of an hour from Verna.
[13.] Fior. iv. and v. consid. These two considerations appear to be the result of a reworking of the primitive document. The latter no doubt included the three former, which the continuer has interpolated and lengthened. Cf. Conform., 231a, 1; Spec., 91b, 92a, 97; A. SS., pp. 860 ff.