Author of "MAROTZ," "DROMINA," etc.
In form, it is almost exactly like a novel with frequent conversations,
and going, in minor matters at least, far beyond the record of history.
The narrative opens with Petruccio as a child in the home of his
parents, who belong to the minor nobility of the Abruzzi. It follows
his career at Salerno, where he attended the University as a lonely
figure making few friends. Afterwards he became a hermit and the story
tells how disciples gathered round him, beginning with two worldly
young men who had known him at Salerno. The Order of the Celestines
thus founded grew in numbers and importance through fifty quiet years,
when the call to the Papacy came. From this point, Mr. Ayscough's
chronicle moves swiftly and dramatically--the poor simple old man
dragged weeping from his hermit's cave and borne to the triumph from
which he shrank in horror,--the miserable weeks in Rome, touching
examples of his simplicity and guilelessness. Then the peace which
came with the renunciation, and his last days passed quite happily as a
captive in a prison cell.
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