Christian saints -- Biography; Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
[6] Vide _Carmina Burana_, Breslau, 8vo, 1883; Political Songs
of England, published by Th. Wright, London, 8vo, 1893; _Poesies
populaires latines du moyen age_, du Meril, Paris, 1847. See
also Raynouard, _Lexique roman_, i., 446, 451, 464, the fine
poems of the troubadour Pierre Cardinal, contemporary of St.
Francis, upon the woes of the Church, and Dante, _Inferno_, xix.
If one would gain an idea of what the bishop of a small city in
those days cost his flock, he has only to read the bull of
February 12, 1219, _Justis petentium_, addressed by Honorius
III. to the Bishop of Terni, and including the contract by which
the inhabitants of that city settled the revenues of the
episcopal see. Horoy, t. iii., col. 114, or the _Bullarium
romanum_, t. iii., p. 348, Turin.
[7] _Conosco sacerdoti che fanno gli usura per formare un
patrimonio da lasciare ai loro spurii; altri che tengono osteria
coll' insegna del collare e vendono vino_ ... Salimbene,
Cantarelli, Parma, 1882, 2 vols., 8vo, ii., p. 307.
[8] Vide _Brevis historia Prior._ _Grandimont.--Stephani
Tornacensis._ Epist. 115, 152, 153, 156, 162; Honorius III.,
Horoy's edition, lib. i., 280, 284, 286-288; ii., 12, 130, 136,
383-387.
[9] Guerard, _Cartulaire de N. D. de Paris_, t. i., p. cxi; t.
ii., p. 406. Cf. Honorius III., Bull _Inter statuta_ of July 25,
1223, Horoy, t. iv., col. 401. See also canon 23 of the Council
of Beziers, 1233; Guibert de Gemblours, _epist._ 5 and 6
(Migne); Honorius III., lib. ix., 32, 81; ii., 193; iv., 10;
iii., 253 and 258; iv., 33, 27, 70, 144; v., 56, 291, 420, 430;
vi., 214, 132, 139, 204; vii., 127; ix., 51.
[10] Vide Bull _Postquam vocante Domino_ of July 11, 1206.
Potthast 2840.
[11] V. _Annales Stadenses_ [_Monumenta Germaniae historica,
Scriptorum_, t. 16], _ad ann. 1237_. Among the comprehensive
pictures of the situation of the Church in the thirteenth
century, there is none more interesting than that left us by the
Cardinal Jacques de Vitry in his _Historia occidentalis: Libri
duo quorum prior Orientalis, alter Occidentalis historiae nomine
inscribitur Duaci_, 1597, 16mo. pp. 259-480.
[12] V. Honorius III., Horoy's edition, lib. i., ep. 109, 125,
135, 206, 273; ii., 128, 164; iv., 120, etc.
[13] _Dialogus miraculorum_ of Cesar of Heisterbach [Strange's
edition, Cologne, 1851, 2 vols., 8vo], t. ii., pp. 255 and 125.
This book, with the Golden Legend of Giacomo di Varaggio, gives
the best idea of the state of religious thought in the
thirteenth century.
[14] _Recueil des historiens de France._ Bouquet, t. xii., pp.
550, 551.
[15] Bonacorsi: _Vitae haereticorum_ [d'Achery, _Spicilegium_, t.
i., p. 215] Cf. Lucius III., epist. 171, Migne.
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