Even at this moment the more moderate spirits on either side looked to the dyer's daughter of Siena for light and guidance. Her eloquent appeal--which has fortunately been preserved to us--secured the neutrality of Lucca and Pisa.[28] Her whole heart was set upon the reconciliation of the Pope with Italy, to be followed by the return of the Holy See to Rome, and a complete reformation of the Church. She addressed letter after letter to the Sovereign Pontiff, calling him _dolcissimo babbo mio_, claiming to write "to the most sweet Christ on earth on behalf of the Christ in Heaven." The wickedness and cruel oppression of evil pastors and governors have caused this war. Let him win back his little rebellious sheep by love and benignity to the fold of the Church. Let him uplift the gonfalone of the most holy Cross, and he will see the wolves become lambs. Let him utterly extirpate these pastors and rulers, these poisonous flowers in the garden of the Church, full of impurity and cupidity, puffed up with pride, and reform her with good pastors and governors "who shall be true servants of Jesus Christ, who shall look to nought but the honour of God and the salvation of souls, and shall be fathers of the poor." The Divine Providence has permitted the loss of states and worldly goods, "as though to show that He wished that Holy Church should return to its primal state of poverty, humility, and meekness, as she was in that holy time, when they attended to nought save to the honour of God and the salvation of souls, caring only for spiritual things and not for temporal." Let him come straightway to Rome, "like a meek lamb, using only the arms of the virtue of love, thinking only of the care of spiritual things;" for God calls him "to come to hold and possess the place of the glorious shepherd St Peter." He may claim that he is bound to recover and preserve the treasure and the lordships of the cities that the Church has lost; far more greatly is he bound to win back so many "little sheep, who are a treasure in the Church." Let him choose between the temporal power and the salvation of souls; let him win back his children in peace, and he will surely have what is due to him. He can conquer only with benignity and mildness, humility and patience. "Keep back the soldiers that you have hired, and suffer them not to come." Let him come as soon as possible, _come uomo virile e senza alcun timore_; but "look to it that you come not with a power of armed men, but with the Cross in your hand, like a meek lamb."[29] But to the Signoria of Florence she wrote in another strain: "You know well that Christ left us His vicar, and He left him for the cure of our souls; for in nought else can we have salvation, save in the mystical body of Holy Church, whose head is Christ and we are the members. And whoso shall be disobedient to Christ on earth, who is in the place of Christ in Heaven, shareth not in the