Wanderings in the Roman campagna . t La Mentorella is the mostpopular festival of the year. The beginning of the temporal power of the Contidates, as usual, from the election of one of them to thePapacy. Innocent III may have Jjeen over-indulgenttoAxards his kinsmen, and may have distributed too freelythe gifts of the Papacy amongst them, but most certainlyhe ranks among the greatest and noblest men that eversat in the chair of St. Peter. From whatever point ofview we consider him, the catholic of Hurter, Bosquet,or Moroni, or the independent of Gregorovius, he riseslike a giant as a man, as a
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . t La Mentorella is the mostpopular festival of the year. The beginning of the temporal power of the Contidates, as usual, from the election of one of them to thePapacy. Innocent III may have Jjeen over-indulgenttoAxards his kinsmen, and may have distributed too freelythe gifts of the Papacy amongst them, but most certainlyhe ranks among the greatest and noblest men that eversat in the chair of St. Peter. From whatever point ofview we consider him, the catholic of Hurter, Bosquet,or Moroni, or the independent of Gregorovius, he riseslike a giant as a man, as a jwpe, as a crusader, as a re-former, as a victorious antagonist of King Philip Augus-tus of France, of Emperor Otho IV of Germany, of KingJohn of England, of King Alfonso VIII of Castile, ofKing Pedro II of x4ragon. He sustained the suzeraintyof the Papacy over Sicily; settled feuds and controver-sies in Aragon, Hungary, Poland. Norway, and Dal-matia; recognized tlie orders of St. Francis and St. THE LAND OF GREGORY THE GREAT 209. A family group of the Conti. (From the original picture now in the Conti-Torlonia villa at PVascati) Dominic; annulled the Magna Charta (1215), and sentout the crusade which established the Latin rule at Con-stantinople. Whenever I am in Perugia, where he diedJuly 17, 1216,1 never fail to pay homage to his mem-ory, regretting that he must share his modest resting-place with two outsiders, Urban IV and Martin IV. 210 WANDERINGS IN THE RO]\IAN CAMPAGNA The foundation of the duchy of PoH — a state in astate, as it were, with cwic and criminal jurisdiction, alocal l)ody of geiis cVarmcs, a ducal flag, and other suchtokens of indej)endcncc — dates from the sixth of Octo-ber of t];e year P^OS, when Richard Conti, brother of the
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