Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
The illustration on page 310, labeled "East Front of San Francesco"is titled "Church of Sta. Maria Maggiore" in the List of Illustrations.
The picture listed as "Umbrian Oxen" in the List of Illustrations does not appear in thebook. (Several copies of this and surrounding editions were checked.)
The Story of Assisi
"Between Tupino, and the wave that falls
From blest Ubaldo's chosen hill, there hangs
Rich slope of mountain high, whence heat and cold
Are wafted through Perugia's eastern gate:
And Nocera with Gualdo, in its rear,
Mourn for their heavy yoke. Upon that side,
Where it doth break its steepness most, arose
A sun upon the world, as duly this
From Ganges doth: therefore let none who speak
Of that place, say Ascesi; for its name
Were lamely so deliver'd; but the East,
To call things rightly, be it henceforth styled."
Dante, Paradiso, xi. (Cary's translation).
The Story of Assisi
by Lina Duff Gordon
Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen
and M. Helen James
London: J. M. Dent & Co.
Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street
Covent Garden W.C. * * 1901
First Edition, December 1900
Second Edition, October 1901
All rights reserved
To
Margaret Vaughan
this small book is affectionately dedicated
in remembrance of days spent together
in the Umbrian country
NOTE
viiMy sincerest thanks are due to my aunt Mrs Ross,to Mrs Vaughan, Dr E. Percival Wright, M.Paul Sabatier, Mr Sidney Colvin, Sir William Markbyand Mr Pearsall Smith, for the help rendered me invarious ways during the writing of this book. I wishfurther to acknowledge the kindness of Mr RogerFry who allowed me to quote from his lectures onArt delivered this year in London, before they werepublished in the New Monthly Review; and also thegenerous permission of Mr Anderson (Rome), andSignor Lunghi (Assisi), for allowing me to use theirphotographs. For the loan of old Italian books I amindebted to Cav. Bruschi, Librarian of the Marucellianaat Florence, to Professor Bellucci, Professor ofthe University of Perugia, and to Signor Rossi, proprietorof the Hotel Subasio at Assisi, whose intimateknowledge of his native town has been of great serviceto me.
L. D. G.
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