An artist in Italy . f the leper hospital attached to thechurch of Cellole, and there he died of the disease whichhe took from those he attended. His townsmen built a church in his honour andvenerated him as a saint for two centuries before hewas canonised, and before Maianos masterpiece wasplaced above his tomb. If San Gimignano can claim fewer artists amongsther sons than can Siena, she can boast of a propor-tionately larger number of saints. Amongst these wasSt. Peter Martyr, who was tortured and put to deathby one of the Sultans of Morocco, where he had beensent by St. Francis of Assisi. S
An artist in Italy . f the leper hospital attached to thechurch of Cellole, and there he died of the disease whichhe took from those he attended. His townsmen built a church in his honour andvenerated him as a saint for two centuries before hewas canonised, and before Maianos masterpiece wasplaced above his tomb. If San Gimignano can claim fewer artists amongsther sons than can Siena, she can boast of a propor-tionately larger number of saints. Amongst these wasSt. Peter Martyr, who was tortured and put to deathby one of the Sultans of Morocco, where he had beensent by St. Francis of Assisi. S. Vivaldo was another,but beyond his having lived in a hollow of a chestnuttree, where he was found dead one day, I dont knowwhat claims he had to saintship. San Gimignano alsolays claim to St. Catherine, inasmuch as her father,Jacopo Benincasa, was born there. Amongst her Beatione was a member of that turbulent family the Salvucci,and two others were Augustinian missionaries who in 240 PALAZZO NEGRONI, MONTEPULCIANO. CONCERNING S. AGOSTINO the sixteenth century suffered martyrdom at the handsof the Saracens. S. Agostino and its deserted monastery stands in anoutlying part of San Gimignano where the walls jutbastionwise into the valley. Such life and movementas still exist in the centre of the town have long for-saken this end of it. Dust lay thick on the sunburntgrass of the piazza, which a days rain had turned togreen before we journeyed to the little towns cappingthe spurs of Amiata. 241 CHAPTER XX THE ROCCA DI MONTESTAFFOLI, ANDA VISIT TO VOLTERRA Within this harsh stronghold, beleaguered by the wind, do dwell a stern, rock-faced people.—Maurice Hewlett. WE have now seen the three principal sights starredin Baedeker, and which no one, however shorthis visit, should miss. But were this all thatSan Gimignano had to show, people satiated with art inFlorence and Siena might pause before taking a journeyhere ; for its earliest art is the art of Siena, and thatwhich follows is
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