[31.] The Speculum, 46b, 58b, 158a, gives us three states. Cf. Fior., 26 and 21; Conform., 119b, 2.
[32.] This desire was so natural that the manuscript of the Angelica Library includes many additional chapters, concerning the gift of Portiuncula, the indulgence of August 2d, the birth of St. Francis, etc. (Vide Amoni, Fioretti, Roma, 1889, pp. 266, 378-386.) It would be an interesting study to seek the origin of these documents and to establish their relationship with the Speculum and the Conformities. Vide Conform., 231a, 1; 121b; Spec., 92-96.
[33.] Ginepro was received into the Order by St. Francis. In 1253 he was present at St. Clara's death. A. SS., Aug., t. ii., p. 764d. The Conformities speak of him in detail, fo 62b.
[34.] The first seven chapters form a whole. The three which follow are doubtless a first attempt at completing them.
[35.] Conformities, fo 55b, 1-60a, 1.
[36.] See Archiv., t. i., p. 145, an article of Father Denifle: Zur Quellenkunde der Franziskaner Geschichte, where he mentions at least eight manuscripts of this work. Cf. Ehrle: Zeitschrift, 1883, p. 324, note 3. I have studied only the two manuscripts of Florence: Riccardi, 279, paper, 243 fos. of two cols. recently numbered. The Codex of the Laurentian Gaddian. rel., 53, is less careful. It is also on paper, 20 x 27, and counts 254 fos. of 1 column. Fo 1 was formerly numbered 88. The order of the chapters is not the same as in the preceding.
[37.] The citations are always made from the edition of Milan, 1510, 4to of 256 folios of two columns. The best known of the subsequent editions are those of Milan, 1513, and Bologna, 1590.
[38.] He began it in 1385 (fo 1), and it was authorized by the chapter general August 2, 1399 (fo 256a, 1). Besides, on fo 150a, 1, he set down the date when he was writing. It was in 1390.
[39.] I am not here concerned with the foolish attacks of certain Protestant authors upon this life. That is a quarrel of the theologians which in no way concerns history. Nowhere does Bartolommeo of Pisa make St. Francis the equal of Jesus, and he was able even to forestall criticism in this respect. The Bollandists are equally severe: "Cum Pisanus fuerit scriptor magis pius et credulus quam crisi severa usus...." A. SS., p. 551e.
[40.] He has avoided the mistakes so unfortunately committed by Wadding in his list of ministers general. Vide 66a. 2, 104a, 1, 118b, 2. He was lecturer on theology at Bologna, Padua, Pisa, Sienna, and Florence. He preached for many years and with great success in the principal villages of the Peninsula and could thus take advantage of his travels by collecting useful notes. Mark of Lisbon has preserved for us a notice of his life. Vide Croniche dei fratri Minori, t. iii., p. 6 ff. of the Diola edition. He died December 10, 1401. For further details see Wadding, ann. 1399, vii., viii., and above all Sbaralea, Supplementum, p. 109. He is the author of an exposition of the Rule little known which can be found in the Speculum Morin, Rouen, 1509, fo 66b-83a, of part three.