The prayer written by Vittoria Colonna is as follows:—
"Da, precor, Domine, ut eâ animi depressione, quæ humilitati meæ convenit, eâque mentis elatione, quam tua postulat celsitudo, te semper adorem; ac in timore, quem tua incutit justitia, et in spe, quam tua clementia permittit, vivam continue, meque tibi uti potentissimo subjiciam, tanquam sapientissimo disponam, et ad te ut perfectissimum et optimum convertar. Obsecro, Pater Pientissime, ut me ignis tuus vivacissimus depuret, lux tua clarissima illustret, et amor tuus ille sincerissimus ita proficiat ut ad te nullo mortalium rerum obice detenta, felix redeam et secura."
INDEX.
A.
Ages of Faith,[85]
Alexander VI., election of, [214]
receives Catherine as a prisoner courteously, [256]
accuses her of conspiring to poison him, [257]
his death, [262]
Alphonso of Naples abdicates, [273]