[Footnote 36: Pope Sixtus IV.--Francis Albescola de Rovere was the son
of a fisherman of Celles, five leagues from Savona.]
[Footnote 37: Hame. Probably Hamela, in Westphalia, 28 miles south-west
from Hanover. Hamela seems to have been the scene of more miracles
than one. In 1284, this town was so much infested with rats that
every method was tried in vain to extirpate them. One day, a man of
prodigious size came thither, dressed in a curiously-coloured robe,
and offered, on certain terms, to extirpate them; which being agreed
to, he drew out of his sleeve a small flute, and, as he was playing on
it, the rats left their holes and followed him to the river Weser, and
were all drowned. When he came to receive his recompence, the townsmen
laughed at him. On the morrow, while the inhabitants were at church, it
being a feast-day, he again played on his flute, and was followed by
all the children under fourteen years to the number of one hundred and
thirty, to the mountain of Kopferberg, where they all disappeared with
him, as was seen by a young girl who had followed and watched them.
_Martiniere's Geographical Dictionary._]
[A.D. 1472.]