<h2><SPAN name="page237"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>NOTES</h2>
<h3>P. 7</h3>
<blockquote><p><i>That called on Cotys by her name</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: right">Æsch. Fr. 54
(Ἠδωνοὶ).</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>P. 94</h3>
<blockquote><p><i>Was it Love brake forth flower-fashion</i>,
<i>a bird with gold on his wings</i>?</p>
<p style="text-align: right">Ar. Av. 696.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>P. 161</h3>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><i>That saw Saint
Catherine bodily</i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Her pilgrimage to Avignon to recall the Pope into Italy as its
redeemer from the distractions of the time is of course the
central act of St. Catherine’s life, the great abiding sign
of the greatness of spirit and genius of heroism which
distinguished this daughter of the people, and should yet keep
her name fresh above the holy horde of saints, in other records
than the calendar; but there is no less significance in the story
which tells how she succeeded in humanizing a criminal under
sentence of death, and given over by the priests as a soul doomed
and desperate; how the man thus raised and melted out of his
fierce and brutal despair besought her to sustain him to the last
by her presence; how, having accompanied him with comfort and
support to the very scaffold, and seen his head fall, she took it
up, and turning to the spectators who stood doubtful whether the
poor wretch could be “saved,” kissed it in sign of
her faith that his sins were forgiven him. The high and
fixed passion of her heroic temperament gives her a right to
remembrance and honour of which the miracle-mongers have done <SPAN name="page238"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>their best
to deprive her. Cleared of all the refuse rubbish of
thaumaturgy, her life would deserve a chronicler who should do
justice at once to the ardour of her religious imagination and to
a thing far rarer and more precious—the strength and
breadth of patriotic thought and devotion which sent this girl
across the Alps to seek the living symbol of Italian hope and
unity, and bring it back by force of simple appeal in the name of
God and of the country. By the light of those solid and
actual qualities which ensure to her no ignoble place on the
noble roll of Italian women who have deserved well of Italy, the
record of her visions and ecstasies may be read without
contemptuous intolerance of hysterical disease. The
rapturous visionary and passionate ascetic was in plain matters
of this earth as pure and practical a heroine as Joan of Arc.</p>
<h3>P. 164</h3>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><i>There on the dim
side-chapel wall</i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In the church of San Domenico.</p>
<h3>P. 165</h3>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><i>But blood nor tears
ye love not</i>, <i>you</i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In the Sienese Academy the two things notable to me were the
detached wall-painting by Sodoma of the tortures of Christ bound
to the pillar, and the divine though mutilated group of the
Graces in the centre of the main hall. The glory and beauty
of ancient sculpture refresh and satisfy beyond expression a
sense wholly wearied and well-nigh nauseated with contemplation
of endless sanctities and agonies attempted by mediæval
art, while yet as handless as accident or barbarism has left the
sculptured goddesses.</p>
<h3>P. 168</h3>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><i>Saw all Italian
things save one</i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="poetry">O patria mia, vedo le mura e gli archi,<br/>
E le colonne e i simulacri e l’erme<br/>
Torri degli avi nostri;<br/>
Ma la gloria non vedo,<br/>
Non vedo il lauro a il ferro ond’ eran carchi<br/>
I nostri padri antichi.</p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: right">LEOPARDI.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3><SPAN name="page239"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>P. 179</h3>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: center"><i>Mother</i>, <i>that
by that Pegasean spring</i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: right">Call. Lav. Pall.
105–112.</p>
<h3>P. 229</h3>
<blockquote><p><i>With black blood dripping from her
eyes</i>.</p>
<p>κὰξ ὸμμάτων
στάςουσιν
αἷμα
δυσφιλές.</p>
<p style="text-align: right">Æsch. Cho.
1058.</p>
</blockquote>
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