. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. 1376) the Florentines, having rebelled against theHoly See, were excommunicated by the pope, Gregory would have braved his displeasure but that it reacted ontheir commercial relations with other countries, with Francemore particularly and they wished for a reconciliation. Theychose for their ambassadress and mediator Catherine of Siena. She set out, therefore, for Avignon, where the popes thenresided, and, being received by the papal court with all respectand deference, she conducted the negotiation with so muchdiscret
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. 1376) the Florentines, having rebelled against theHoly See, were excommunicated by the pope, Gregory would have braved his displeasure but that it reacted ontheir commercial relations with other countries, with Francemore particularly and they wished for a reconciliation. Theychose for their ambassadress and mediator Catherine of Siena. She set out, therefore, for Avignon, where the popes thenresided, and, being received by the papal court with all respectand deference, she conducted the negotiation with so muchdiscretion that the pope constituted her arbitress, and lefther to dictate the terms of peace between himself and theturbulent Florentines. But on her return to Florence shefound the whole city in a state of tumult, and when she would i The crucifix commemorated in this legend is a painting on panel by GiuntaPisano (about 1260). It was afterwards removed from Pisa by a special decreeof the pope, and placed in the oratory of St. Catherine at Siena, where I Baw itin SIENA. 389 py not only refused to listen* refuge in a convent of herpaled till the sedition was putwo, believed that much of theafflicted Italy arose from thefrom their own capital. Sheope to induce him to return toof government in the Lateran;nt and persuasive letters, at thisnd the cardinals, decided theirope left Avignon in Septemberm the way, attended on him whento Rome ; and when, in his alarmstep he had taken, the Holy Fathernon, she persuaded him to ; The Great Schism of the WestAom beheld two infallible popes, sup-arrayed against each other. Catherine:alian pope, Urban YL, and showed, inmore capacity, good sense, and honesty——most favourable of his biographers ever•aaracter and conduct of that violent and-le appointed her his ambassadress to thefvU. of Naples, and she at once accepted theiuose who were to accompany her refused toCiO Jarney so beset with dangers, and, after variousrojeet was aba
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