FOOTNOTES:
[2] Quetif et Echard, Script. Ord. Præd., tom. i. p. 679.
[3] "Eique cœlitus datus est a confessionibus et divinorum secretorum conscius."—Quetif et Echard, Script. Ord. Præd., tom. i. p. 679.
[4] Among others, the writer refers to a life of St. Catherine, by Pietro Aretino. That most versatile of literary scamps did, indeed, write such a work; but it is the life of an altogether different St. Catherine!
[5] Vita di Cat., vol. i. p. 19.
[6] It may be noted for the unlearned reader, that, though catholic signifies universal, catha has no such sense.
[7] Vita di Cat., vol. i. p. 46.
[8] "Vi contentiate di farmi una grazia si grande."
[9] It may be just mentioned, for the benefit of the English reader, that the name Catherine, as may be seen from any dictionary, is derived from the Greek adjective signifying "pure."