Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 71
d wisdomthat no one shall be able to resist. I shall bring theeeven before Pontiffs and before the rulers of the Churchand of the Christian people, to the end that, as is mywont, I may by means of the weak confound the prideof the strong. ^ Henceforth her work was done in the light of the world.… … ST CATHERINE OF SIENA (Andrea di Vanni) Lombardi, Siena Saint Catherine of Siena hot pincers of the executioners [^attanagliati in the horriblephrase of the epoch), turned their despairing blasphemiesto words of joy and comfort; fierce taction leaders, likeGiacomo Tolomei, laid aside their fury and…
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