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Title: The country of The ring and the book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Treves, Frederick, Sir, 1853-1923
Subjects: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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by a picturesqueold yellow bridge (Plate 65), and, passing through thewholly uneventful town of Bastia, reaches to the posting-house by Santa Maria degli Angeli, just eleven and aquarter miles beyond Perugia. The two fugitives woulddraw up at Saint Mary of the Angels about three in theafternoon, and, great as was their haste, it may be assumedthat it was at this holy and romantic spot that theytarried the longest. They were at the foot of Assisiand in the very heart of St. Franciss country. Manyand many a time had he and his companions walkedalong the particular road that the two had traversed,talking together and singing and muttering their prayers.It was while journeying by this way from Perugia thatSt. Francis explained to Brother Leo, whom he alwaysaddressed as thou little sheep of God, what wasperfect joy, and how it could be found even if the seekerwere struck with a knotty stick and, indeed, beaten with * Letters of James, Earl of Perth. London, Camden Society, 1845, p. 74. 198
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From Perugia to Foligno by Assisi all the knots of that stick. Caponsacchi had, withoutdoubt, read the Fioretti, and possibly knew much ofit by heart. He would tell the little countess aboutBrother Anthony, that marvellous vessel of the HolySpirit ; of Brother Juniper, a man of deep humility,who had unwonted power over demons, and yet whoplayed at see-saw in order to abase himself; of theseraphic and god-like Brother Giles, who at one timeentertained the King of France; and of the saintsspecial companion, Brother Bernard, who on occasionstood rapt in God, with gaze fast fixed, from morninguntil nones. Perhaps he would tell of that disciple ofSt. Francis, named John of the Chapel, who fellaway and finally hanged himself by the neck. Possiblyhe would point out to her the spot across the plainwhere stood Bevagna, and where it was that St. Francispreached to his little sisters the birds, and warnedthem solemnly to beware of the sin of ingratitude.Certain it is that he would tell her that

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