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and knowledge of the world of his two colleagues . 1The trio sailed from Jaffa and arrived safeat Brindisi, and there learned that the Popewas at Yerona, not to pacify Italy, but driven toit in this horrid manner. The cruel by nature, timeeasily changes them. Thanks be to God, nothinglike what I am going to relate happens now. Peopleare to-day of a purer porcelain . 2 In a sedition thoseof Rome seized on some innocent clergymen andscooped out their eyes; and putting them astride ondonkeys, each facing backwards and holding the ani-mal’s tail, forced them to proceed in rueful processionto Yelletri, where the Pope was then inVilleggiatura.Which barbarous sight struck the poor old virtu-ous Pontiff with such horror that he drove off in-stantly for Bologna, and thence by Modena to Yerona,where he sickened severely, and after lingering a fewmonths, died in the arms of the emperor, who hadcome to meet and console him.

This Pope Lucius was a Lucchese, and proud ofhaving had the first grand master for countryman;it was a consolation to him to do justice to theorder; as he did in a bull still extant, with all the

1 Yertot: ii. 249.

2 riatina : Yite dei Pontefici, iii. 25.