123, says:⁠— “Francis appears to me a genuine hero, original, independent, magnanimous, incorruptible. His powers seemed designed to regenerate society; but, taking a wrong direction, they sank men into beggars.” Finally, the phrase he often uttered when others praised him may be here repeated, “What every one is in the eyes of God, that he is and no more.” ↩

• Namely, in winter, when the sun is far south; or, as Biagioli prefers, glowing with unwonted splendor. ↩
• It will be noticed that there is a play of words on the name Ascesi (I ascended), which Padre Venturi irreverently calls a concetto di tre quattrini . ↩
• His vow of poverty, in opposition to the wishes of his father. ↩
• In the presence of his father and of the Bishop of the diocese. ↩
• After the death of Christ, she waited eleven hundred years and more till St. Francis came. ↩