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Updated: June 25, 2025
His first successes, his virgin triumphs, his secret love, his fame, his power, his reverses, the hermitage of Maiella, the dungeon of Avignon, the triumphal return to Rome, all swept across his breast with a distinctness as if he were living those scenes again! and now! he shrunk from the present, and descended the hill.
Who can say what must have been endured, what meditated, in the hermitage of Maiella; on the lonely hills of the perished empire it had been his dream to restore; in the Courts of Barbarian Kings; and above all, on returning obscure and disguised, amidst the crowds of the Christian world, to the seat of his former power? What elements of memory, and in what a wild and fiery brain!
Maintaining secret intercourse with his partisans at Rome, the fugitive then sought a refuge with the Eremites, sequestered in the lone recesses of the Monte Maiella, where in solitude and thought he had passed a whole year, save the time consumed in his visit to and return from Florence.
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