of August, 1209, is much too short for all that the
biographers tell us about the life of the Brothers before their
visit to Innocent III. The mission to Florence took place in
winter, or at least in a very cold month. But the decisive
argument is that Innocent III. quitted Rome toward the end of
May, 1209, and went to Viterbo, returning only to crown Otho,
October 4th (Potthast, 3727-3803). It is therefore absolutely
necessary to postpone to the summer of 1210 the visit of the
Penitents to the pope. This is also the date which Wadding
arrives at.

[2] 3 Soc., 35.

[3] 1 Cel., 32; 3 Soc., 51; Bon., 34. Cf. _Test. B. Fr._ M. K.
Mueller of Halle, in his _Anfaenge_, has made a very remarkable
study of the Rule of 1221, whence he deduces an earlier Rule,
which he believes to be that of 1209 (1210). For once I find
myself entirely in accord with him, except that the Rule thus
reconstructed (Vide _Anfaenge_, pp. 14-25, 184-188) appears to me
to be not that of 1210, which was very short, but another, drawn
up between 1210 and 1221. The _plures regulas fecit_ of the 3
Soc., 35, authorizes us to believe that he made perhaps as many
as four--1st, 1210, very short, containing little more than the
three passages of the vocation; 2d, 1217 (?), substantially that
proposed by M. Mueller; 3d, 1221, that of which we shall speak at
length farther on; 4th, 1226, the Will, which if not a Rule is
at least an appendix to the Rule. If from 1221-1226 he had time
to make two Rules and the Will, as is universally admitted,
there is nothing surprising in his having made two from
1210-1221. Perhaps we have a fragment of that of 1217 in the
regulation of hermitages. Vide below, p. 109.

[4] Thomas of Celano's list. 1, _Quidam pium gerens animum_; 2,
_Bernardus_; 3, _Vir alter_; 4, _AEgidius_; 5, _Unus alius
appositus_; 6, _Philippus_; 7, _Alius bonus vir_; 8, 9, 10, 11,
_Quatuor boni et idonei viri_. 1 Cel., 24, 25, 29, 31. The
Rinaldi-Amoni text says nothing of the last four. Three
Companions: 1, _Bernardus_; 2, _Petrus_; 3, _AEgidius_; 4,
_Sabbatinus_; 5, _Moritus_; _Johannes Capella_; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
Disciples received by the brethren in their missions. 3 Soc.,
33, 35, 41, 46, 52. Bonaventura: 1, _