JACIUNT ORDINIS SERVORUM D. MARIAE
VIRG.

There remain the two facades which formed as it were arms, as has been
told, to the straight limb of the cross. These were smaller than those
already described, which was caused by the narrowness of the two streets
that begin there; wherefore, since less space came to be left for the
magnificence of the work, in order consequently not to depart from the
due proportion of height in their much smaller size, with much judgment
the arch which gave passage there had on either side not a niche but a
single column; over which rose a frieze in due proportion, in the centre
of which was a painted picture that crowned the ornamentation of that
facade, but not without an infinity of such other embellishments,
devices, and pictures as were thought to be proper in such a place. Now,
that whole structure being dedicated to the glory and power of the true
Religion and to the memory of her glorious victories, they chose the two
most noble and most important victories, won over two most powerful and
particular adversaries, human wisdom namely, under which are comprised
philosophers and heretics, and worldly power: and on the part facing
towards the Archbishop's Palace was seen depicted how S. Peter and S.
Paul and the other Apostles, filled with the divine spirit, disputed
with a great number of philosophers and many others full of human
wisdom, some of whom, those most confused, were seen throwing away or
tearing up the books that they held in their hands, and others, such as
Dionysius the Areopagite, Justinus, Pantaenus, and the like, were coming
towards them, all humble and devout, in token of having recognized and
accepted the Evangelic truth; with the motto in explanation of this,
which said: NON EST SAPIENTIA, NON EST PRUDENTIA. In the other scene
towards the Archbishop's Palace, on the other side from the first, were
seen the same S. Peter and S. Paul and the others in the presence of
Nero and many of his armed satellites, boldly and freely preaching the
truth of the Evangel; with the motto--NON EST FORTITUDO, NON EST
POTENTIA, referring to that which follows in Solomon, whence the motto
is taken--CONTRA DOMINUM. Of the facades which came under the two vaults
of those two arches, in one, on the side towards the Archbishop's
Palace, was seen the Blessed Giovanni Colombini, an honoured citizen of
Siena, making a beginning with the Company of the Ingesuati by throwing
off the citizen's