Still in Arezzo, he was bishop of,

Sixty years since: he spent to the last doit

His bishop's-revenue among the poor,

And used to tend the needy and the sick,

Barefoot, because of his humility.

He it was,—when the Granduke Ferdinand

Swore he would raze our city, plough the place

And sow it with salt, because we Aretines

Had tied a rope about the neck, to hale

The statue of his father from its base