FOOTNOTES

1. Thirty-sixth and last strophe of the song

Amor de caritade Perche m' hai si ferito?

found in the collection of St. Francis's works.

2. By the Abbé Amoni, at the close of his edition of the Fioretti, Rome, 1 vol., 12mo, 1889, pp. 390-392. We can but once more regret the silence of the editor as to the manuscript whence he has drawn these charming pages. Certain indications seem unfavorable to the author having written it before the second half of the thirteenth century; on the other hand, the object of a forgery is not evident. An apochryphal piece always betrays itself by some interested purpose, but here the story is of an infantine simplicity.

3. 2 Cel., 3, 104; Bon., 119; Fior. ii. consid.

4. Parti san Francesco per Monte-Acuto prendendo la via di Monte-Arcoppe e del foresto. This road from the Verna to Borgo San-Sepolero is far from being the shortest or the easiest, for instead of leading directly to the plain it lingers for long hours among the hills. Is not all Francis in this choice?

5. 2 Cel., 3, 41; Bon., 141; Fior. iv. consid.

6. 1 Cel., 63 and 64; Fior. iv. consid.

7. 1 Cel., 70; Fior. iv. consid.

8. 1 Cel., 109; 69; Bon. 208. Perhaps we must refer to this circuit the visit to Celano. 2 Cel., 3, 30; Spec., 22; Bon., 156 and 157.

9. 1 Cel., 97 and 98; 2 Cel., 3, 137; Bon., 205 and 206.

10. Richard of St. Germano, ann. 1225. Cf. Potthast, 7400 ff.

11. 1 Cel., 98 and 99; 2 Cel., 3, 137; Fior., 19.

12. 2 Cel., 3, 110; Rule of 1221, cap. 10.

13. See the reference to the sources after the Canticle of the Sun.

14. 2 Cel., 3, 138.

15. This incident appeared to the authors so peculiar that they emphasized it with an ut oculis videmus. 2 Cel., 3, 67; Spec., 119a.

16. Spec., 123a; 2 Cel., 3, 58.

17. I have combined Celano's narrative with that of the Conformities. The details given in the latter document appear to me entirely worthy of faith. It is easy to see, however, why Celano omitted them, and it would be difficult to explain how they could have been later invented. 2 Cel., 3, 138; Conform., 42b, 2; 119b, 1; 184b, 2; 239a, 2; Spec., 123a ff.; Fior., 19.

18. After the Assisan MS., 338, fo 33a. Vide p. 354. Father Panfilo da Magliano has already published it after this manuscript: Storia compendiosa di San Francesco, Rome, 2 vols., 18mo, 1874-1876. The Conformities, 202b, 2-203a 1, give a version of it which differs from this only by insignificant variations. The learned philologue Monaci has established a very remarkable critical text in his Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli. Citta di Castello, fas. i., 1889, 8vo, pp. 29-31. This thoroughly scrupulous work dispenses me from indicating manuscripts and editions more at length.

19. Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series. Macmillan & Company, 1883.

20. 2 Cel., 3, 58; Spec., 123a.

21. Spec., 124a. Cf. Miscellanea (1889), iv., p. 88.