[167] _Nuovi Documenti_, pp. 202, 203. [168] For further details, see Antonio Canestrelli's admirable monograph, _L'Abbazia di San Galgano_. [169] Oraffi (_Vita del B. Bernardo Tolomei_, pp. 44-72) gives what is said to be the text of this homily. It may, possibly, be a genuine work of the Saint, but as it speaks of "the schism arisen in the Sacred Empire, now many years ago, between Frederick of Austria and Ludwig of Bavaria," it could not have been delivered on this occasion. [170] Frizzoni, _op. cit._ p. 115. [171] _Cf._ Frizzoni, _op. cit._ p 117. [172] _Commentarii_, x. pp. 482-484. [173] _Storia della Repubblica di Firenze_, i. pp. 389, 390. [174] A. C. Swinburne, _Relics_. [175] There are two hotels in San Gimignano: the Albergo Centrale and the Leone Bianco. The present writer's experience has been confined to the Albergo Centrale, which is pleasantly situated and excellent for so small a town. [176] Pecori, _Storia della Terra di San Gimignano_, p. 41. [177] Coppi, _Annali, memorie, etc._, pp. 108-114. I have spared my readers some of the details of "cette existence d'expiation." Not many of us can look upon these things with the eyes of M. J.-K. Huysmans, in his _Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam_: "Elle fut, en somme, un fruit de souffrance," he writes of Lydwine, whose life was very like a prolonged version of Fina's, "que Dieu écrasa et pressura jusqu'à ce qu'il en eût exprimé le dernier suc; l'écale était vide lorsqu'elle mourut; Dieu allait confier à d'autres de ses filles le terrible fardeau qu'elle avait laissé; elle avait pris, elle-même, la succession d'autres saintes et d'autres saintes allaient, à leur tour, hériter d'elle" (p. 291). [178] Pecori, p. 113. [179] In May 1899, San Gimignano kept the sixth centenary of Dante's embassy, and it was on this occasion that the real date 1300 (instead of 1299, as hitherto supposed) was discovered. [180] Rossetti's translation. [181] Sonnet 33 in Navone's edition. [182] _Cronachetta di San Gimignano_, 163-171. [183] Matteo Villani, iii. 22, 46, 55, 69: Pecori, pp. 168-171. [184] _Cronachetta_, 8-21. [185] iii. 73. [186] The conditions of this final submission are given in full in Pecori, pp. 174-179. [187] With the exception of the churches of Cellole and San Pietro, San Gimignano is in the diocese of the Bishop of Colle. The chief ecclesiastical dignitary of the town, the head of the Collegiata, is the _Proposto_ or Provost--at present the learned Don Ugo Nomi-Pesciolini, whose invariable kindness and courtesy to visitors are well known to English travellers. [188] See the list given by Mr Berenson, _Florentine Painters_, pp. 132-134. [189] "The bones of a virgin lie hidden in the tomb which thou beholdest, stranger; she is the glory, the example, the guardian of her fellow-citizens. Her name was Fina; this her native land. Dost thou seek miracles? Scan what the wall and life-like statues teach."