object authors who
take great pains to explain it could have had for inventing it.
_Spec._, 133a; _Fior._ iv.; _consid._; _Conform._, 240a. I have
borrowed the whole account from Bernard of Besse: _De Laudibus_,
f^o 113b. It appears that Giacomina settled for the rest of her
life at Assisi, that she might gain edification from the first
companions of Francis. _Spec._, 107b. (What a lovely scene, and
with what a Franciscan fragrance!) The exact date of her death
is not known. She was buried in the lower church of the basilica
of Assisi, and on her tomb was engraved: _Hic jacit Jacoba
sancta nobilisque romana_. Vide Fratini: _Storia della
basilica_, p. 48. Cf. Jacobilli: _Vite dei Santi e Beati dell'
Umbria_, Foligno, 3 vols., 4to, 1647; i., p. 214.

[19] 2 Cel., 3, 139; Bon., 209, 210; _Conform._, 171b, 2.

[20] 2 Cel., 3, 139: _Cum me videritis ... sicut me nudius
tertius nudum vidistis._

[21] 1 Cel., 109; 2 Cel., 3, 139.

[22] 1 Cel., 109; Bon., 212.

[23] 1 Cel., 109. Cf. _Epist. Eliae._

[24] _Tribul._ Laur., 22b. Nothing better shows the historic
value of the chronicle of the Tribulations than to compare its
story of these moments with that of the following documents:
_Conform._, 48b, 1; 185a, 2; _Fior._, 6.; _Spec._, 86a.

[25] 2 Cel., 3, 139; _Spec._, 116b; _Conform._, 224b, 1.

[26] 2 Cel., 3, 139. A simple comparison between this story in
the _Speculum_ (116b) and that in the _Conformities_ (224b, 1)
is enough to show how in certain of its parts the _Speculum_
represents a state of the legend anterior to 1385.

[27] Bon., 214. This cell has been transformed into a chapel and
may be found a few yards from the little church of Portiuncula.
Church and chapel are now sheltered under the great Basilica of
Santa Maria degli Angeli. See the picture and plan, A. SS., p.
814, or better still in _P. Barnabas aus dem Elsass, Portiuncula
oder Geschichte U. L. F. v. den Engeln_. Rixheim, 1884, 1 vol.,
8vo, pp. 311 and 312.

[28] 1 Cel., 116 and 117; Bon., 219; _Conform._ 185a, 1.

[29] To-day in the _cloture_ of the convent St. Clara. Vide
Miscellanea 1, pp. 44-48, a very interesting study by Prof.
Carattoli upon the coffin of St. Francis.

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