Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325

 206 LaCitadeSancta herald Michelino who summoned the witnesses.^169 When Giovanni’s canon- ization commission asked Domenica o ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 207  the south lacked shrines of this type.^177 The best-known Tuscan exceptions are both Sienese. On ...

 208 LaCitadeSancta a particular saint. The Dominican bishop of Brescia, Bartolomeo di Breg- anza, gave special indulgences to ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 209  present at Mass—the hagiographer Giovanni among them—saw the lamps around his tomb miraculously ...

 210 LaCitadeSancta Petronio. She found freedom when the custodians covered her with the altar linens from the shrine containin ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 211  vita includes the prayers to bless his water, so that readers could make more if they ran out.^2 ...

 212 LaCitadeSancta the priest raised the Host at Mass on his altar, she was cured of paralysis in her arms. She gave in thanks ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 213  practice originated with Tommasina di Allegro de’ Fassani, who came to the shrine on the day of ...

 214 LaCitadeSancta dropsy.^239 A vow might be the only remedy for the misfortunes inflicted on those who failed to recognize t ...

HolyPersons andHolyPlaces 215  the part of the body healed or even the whole body. We find records of such ‘‘ex-voto’’ wax imag ...

 216 LaCitadeSancta but these fees did not come from pilgrims or because of vows.^256 Where the income at the shrine of a commu ...

fig. 34 Altarpiece showing Margherita of Cortona, a lay penitent, in her homemade habit, late thirteenth century. Cortona, Museo ...

fig. 35 Monk receiving penance, miniature, fourteenth century. Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, msa.P.9.1, fol. 114 r. ...

fig. 37 The duomo at Siena, crossing column, incorporating a drawbar from the Sienese carroccio at the Battle of Montaperti, 126 ...

fig. 39 The life of Saint Petronio in the martyrology of Santo Stefano. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, ms 1473 , fol. 254 r, ...

fig. 41 Units of measure built into the wall of the Palazzo Comunale, Bologna. fig. 40 City statutes of 1187 carved on the cathe ...

fig. 42 Palazzo del Podestà, Bologna, city chapel, thirteenth century. Image not available ...

fig. 45 Santa Maria dei Servi, Padua, porch columns from the old shrine of Saint Anthony of Padua, demolished 1372. fig. 43 Bolo ...

fig. 46 Sant’Eustorgio, Cappella Portinari, Milan, tomb of Saint Peter of Verona, 1338. Image not available ...

fig. 47 Simoni Martini, Sant’Agostino Novello altarpiece, Miracle of the Child Fallen from the Cradle.Siena, Pinacoteca Nazional ...