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Updated: May 27, 2025
It is twelve years and more since we studied the history of the "B. Angela de Foligni," and many another kindred saint; and we cannot recollect what were the terrific temptations, what was the floor of hell which the poor thing saw yawning beneath her feet. But we must ask Mr. Vaughan, has he ever read Boccaccio, or any of the Italian novelists up to the seventeenth century?
But even on this ground we must protest against such a sketch as this; even of one of the least honourable of the Middle-age saints: ATHERTON. Angela de Foligni, who made herself miserable I must say something the converse of flourished about the beginning of the fourteenth century, was a fine model pupil of this sort, a genuine daughter of St. Francis.
He wrote that he could not at first believe it, but that shortly afterwards at Foligni he took a chancellor of Camerino who admitted that the hopes of this State were all founded upon Urbino's assistance; and later, a messenger from Urbino falling into his hands, he discovered that there was a plot afoot to seize the Borgia artillery as it passed through Ugubio, it being known that, as Cesare had no suspicions, the guns would be guarded only by a small force.
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