[11] Vide Wadding, _ann. 1213-1215_. Cf. A. SS., pp. 602, 603, 825-831. Mark of Lisbon, _lib._ i., _cap._ 45, pp. 78-80; Papini, _Storia di S. Francesco_, i., p. 79 ff. (Foligno, 1825, 2 vols., 4to). It is surprising to see Father Suysken giving so much weight to the _argumentum a silentio_. [12] From Pentecost, 1213, to that of 1214.--_Post non multum vero temporis versus Marochium iter arripuit_, says Thomas of Celano (1 Cel., 56), after having mentioned the return from Slavonia. Taking into account the author's _usus loquendi_ the phrase appears to establish a certain interval between the two missions. [13] _Conform._, 110b, 1; _Spec._, 62b; _Fior._, 16; Bon., 170-174. [14] Village about two leagues S. W. from Assisi. The time is indirectly fixed by Bon., 173, and 1 Cel., 58. [15] 1 Cel. 58; Bon., 109 and 174; _Fior._, 16; _Spec._, 62b; _Conform._, 114b, 2. [16] About halfway between Orvieto and Narni. [17] 1 Cel., 59; Bon., 175. [18] _Ad haec, ut ipse dicebat_ ... 1 Cel., 58. [19] Francis has been compared in this regard to certain of his contemporaries, but the similarity of the words only makes more evident the diversity of inspiration. Honorius III. may say: _Forma rosae est inferius angusta, superius ampla et significat quod Christus pauper fuit in mundo, sed est Dominus super omnia et implet universa. Nam sicut forma rosae_, etc. (Horoy, t. i., col. xxiv. and 804), and make a whole sermon on the symbolism of the rose; these overstrained dissertations have nothing to do with the feeling for nature. It is the arsenal of mediaeval rhetoric used to dissect a word. It is an intellectual effort, not a song of love. The Imitation would say: _If thy heart were right all creatures would be for thee a mirror of life and a volume of holy doctrine_, lib. ii., cap. 2. The simple sentiment of the beauty of creation is absent here also; the passage is a pedagogue in disguise. [20] _Spec._, 157. _Fior._; 22. [21] 2 Cel., 2, 16; _Conform._, 148a, 1, 183b, 2. Cf. the story of the sheep of Portiuncula: Bon., 111. [22] Village in the valley of Rieti, two hours' walk from that town, on the road to Terni. [23] 1 Cel., 60; Bon., 113. [24] 1 Cel., 61; Bon., 114. [25] 2 Cel., 3, 54; Bon., 109; 2 Cel., 3; 103 ff.; Bon., 116 ff.; Bon., 110; 1 Cel., 61; Bon., 114, 113, 115; 1 Cel., 79; _Fior._, 13, etc. [26] 2 Cel., 3, 101 ff.; Bon., 123. [27] 2 Cel., 3, 59; 1 Cel., 80 and 81. [28] 2 Cel., 3, 101; _Spec._, 136a; 1 Cel., 81.