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Updated: June 29, 2025
The gradual passing of this derivative work, the prophecy of such painters as Masolino, Masaccio, and Fra Angelico may be found in the work of Orcagna, of Antonio Veneziano, and Starnina, and possibly too in the better-preserved paintings of Lorenzo Monaco of the order of S. Romuald of Camaldoli, in the Annunciation , for instance, here in this very room.
He goes to Perugia, to consult the cardinal protector His opinion on the promotion of his friars to ecclesiastical dignities He returns to S. Mary of the Angels His thoughts on these dignities More than five thousand Friars Minors are present at the chapter he had appointed He addresses the assembly, and forbids them troubling themselves about their food Assistance comes to him from all sides He receives more than five hundred novices during this chapter He forbids indiscreet mortifications The devils are incensed against him and his Order He cautions his friars, and upon that gives them some instruction He humbles them to preserve them from vainglory He confounds those who wish the Rule mitigated He wishes not for privileges which can engender disputes He gives his friars instructions about their conduct to ecclesiastics He obtains from the Pope letters apostolical confirming the approval of the Order What he decrees in the chapter He sends his friars through the whole world The travels of his Friars in various parts of the world In Greece In Africa In Spain and Portugal In France In the Low Countries He himself prepares to go to the Levant On the government of the monastery of S. Damian, and other houses of the same order He sends six of his friars to Morocco What he says to them He starts on his voyage to Syria, with twelve companions He rejects a postulant too much attached to his parents A house at Ancona is given to him He appoints, by means of a child inspired by God, those who are to accompany him to Syria He embarks at Ancona and anchors at the isle of Cyprus Arrives at Acre Distributes his companions in different parts of Syria, and comes to the army before Damietta He arrives at the camp before Damietta, and predicts the ill-success of the battle the Crusaders are about to give His prediction is accomplished He finds out the sultan of Egypt Announces to him the truths of the faith, and offers to throw himself into the fire to prove them He refuses the sultan's presents Is esteemed and respected The good dispositions with which he inspires the sultan He obtains permission to preach in his States He receives some disciples from the army of the Crusaders Visits the holy places Some whole monasteries of religious embrace his Institute He returns to Italy Establishes his Order in various places Preaches at Bologna with great success What he says and does on seeing a house of his Order too much ornamented He makes a retreat at Camaldoli Returns to S. Mary of the Angels Reads the thoughts of his companion Confounds the vanity of Brother Elias Abolishes the novelties introduced into the Order by Brother Elias In a vision the fortunes of his Order are made known to him He holds the chapter in which he deposes Brother Elias, and in his place substitutes Peter of Catania He renounces the generalship Will not receive anything from novices entering his Order He learns the news of the martyrdom of the friars he had sent to Morocco What he says on the subject of their martyrdom The martyrdom of these friars is the cause of the vocation of S. Antony of Padua His friars pass into England He visits some convents Receives the Vicar General's resignation, and re-appoints, by the command of God, Brother Elias to his place He holds a chapter, and sends missionaries to Germany
It chanced once, among other times, that he brought thither one called Niccolosa, whom a lewd fellow, by name Mangione, kept at his disposal in a house at Camaldoli and let out on hire. She was a woman of a fine person and well clad and for her kind well enough mannered and spoken.
Nevertheless, if we could be insensible to the badness of his discourse, we should feel ourselves moved by the different objects that surround him. The greater part of his auditors are of the confraternity of the Camaldoli; they are clad during their religious exercises in a sort of grey robe, which entirely covers the head and the whole body, with two little holes for the eyes.
If I had nothing else to do, I think I should cast in my lot with him, at least for a week. But the monks never got into a cozier nook than the Convent of the Camaldoli. That also is suppressed: its gardens, avenues, colonnaded walks, terraces, buildings, half in ruins. It is the level surface of a hill, sheltered on the east by higher peaks, and on the north by the more distant range of Great St.
Now I do not wish to grudge the labour of giving an exact description of the machinery of that engine, seeing that it has all disappeared and that the men who could speak of it from personal knowledge are dead, so that there is no hope of its being reconstructed, that place being inhabited no longer by the Monks of Camaldoli, but by the Nuns of S. Pier Martire; and above all since the one in the Carmine has been destroyed, because it was pulling down the rafters that support the roof.
There he executed certain works in fresco in the Church of S. Severo, a place belonging to the Monks of the Order of Camaldoli, wherein Raffaello da Urbino, when quite young and still the disciple of Pietro, had painted certain figures, as will be told in his Life.
But in the end, seeing the world turned topsy-turvy, a desire came to him to become a monk, and to give his attention in peace to the salvation of his soul, and he went to the Hermitage of Camaldoli.
In the Church of the Order of Camaldoli in Florence, also, he painted for the Company of the Martyrs some scenes of the martyrdom of some saints, and two chapels in the church, one on either side of the principal chapel.
Romuald the founder of Camaldoli St. Benedict who overthrew the temples, St. Augustine who has spoken of the City of God, S. Alberto di Vercelli the founder of the Carmelites. And on the other side, beside St. John Baptist, St. Mark the patron of the convent kneels with his open Gospel, St. Laurence stands with his gridiron, and behind him come the two other Medici saints, S. Cosmo and S. Damiano.
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