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. ↩