[2] Printed in the _Archivio Storico Italiano_, series III. vol. xxii. [3] Siena is still divided into _terzi_ or thirds; the Terzo di Città, the Terzo di San Martino, the Terzo di Camollia. [4] Rondoni, _op. cit._ p. 60. [5] Letter of August 11th, 1259, still preserved in the Archivio di Stato of Siena, quoted by Paoli, _La Battaglia di Montaperti_, p. 13. [6] The documents cited by Paoli prove conclusively that the story, told by Giovanni Villani, of Farinata contriving that the Germans should be annihilated at Santa Petronilla and the royal standard lost, in order that Manfred might be induced to send a larger force, has no historical foundation. Neither is it a fact that the Sienese were forced to induce the Florentines to resume hostilities because the Germans had been hired for only three months. [7] The Sienese accounts of the battle by Domenico Aldobrandini and Niccolò di Giovanni Ventura (in which, says Prof. d'Ancona, the narrative has "una grandezza veramente epica") are in Porri's _Miscellanea Storica Senese_; for the Florentine version see Villani, vi. 75-79, and Leonardo Bruni, _Istoria Fiorentina_ II. (vol. i. pp. 215-225 in the edition of 1855). _Cf._ Villari, _I primi due secoli della Storia di Firenze_, ch. iv., and especially C. Paoli, _La Battaglia di Montaperti_, already referred to. _Il Libro di Montaperti_, edited by Prof. Paoli (Florence, 1889), is "the only official document of Florentine source which remains to us of that war." [8] _Purg._ xiii. 115-123. [9] _Inf._ xiii. 120; _Purg._ xiii. 128. [10] J. A. Symonds. [11] _Assempro_ II. [12] Agnolo di Tura, _Cronica Senese_, 122-124. [13] Malavolti, ii. 7. p. 132. [14] Neri di Donato, _Cronica Senese_, 202-206. [15] In the continuation (wrongly ascribed to Agnolo di Tura) of the _Cronica Senese_. [16] _Op. cit._ 294. [17] _Leggenda minore_, i. 12. [18] Augusta Drane, vol. i. p. 83. I think that this author unquestionably deserves to be called the best of Catherine's modern biographers; but the reader must be warned against her historical inaccuracies and her treatment of some of the Saint's political letters. [19] Raimondo da Capua, _Leggenda_, p. 226. [20] _I.e._, since his first Communion--that at least seems the more obvious meaning of _la quale mai più aveva ricevuta_. [21] Letter 273. [22] Letter 272. [23] Letter 11. [24] Letter 28. [25] Letter 29. [26] Letter 109. [27] Letter 140. [28] Letter 168. [29] Letters 185, 196, 206, 209, 218, 229. She has no thought of the Pope's return as a temporal sovereign. (_Cf._ letter 370.) [30] Letter 207. [31] Letter 240. [32] Letter 247. [33] Letter 252. [34] Letters 270, 267. These have obviously been transposed in chronological order. [35] Letter 285. [36] Letter 291. [37] Letter 295. [38] Letter 303.