[10] Vita di Cat., vol. i. p. 81.
[11] Vita di Cat., vol. i. p. 114.
[12] Ibid., vol. i. p. 153.
[13] That is, by the hand of her secretary; of which more anon.
[14] There is a letter from her to the war commissioners in Florence, written from Avignon, 28th of June, 1376, ten days after her arrival there, in which she speaks of an interview she had had with the Pope on this subject. It is the 197th letter of the collection.
[15] Ammirato, Istorie Fiorentine, vol. v. p. 130. Edit. Florence, 1824.
[16] The "otto della guerra;" a committee of eight, appointed to carry on the war.
[17] Ammirato, vol. v. p. 133.
[18] Muratori, Annali, ad ann. 1376.
[19] Hist. du grand Schis. d'Occid., lib. i. p. 11.