., 41.

[12] 1 Cel., 42-44.

[13] 2 Cel., 1, 15; Bon., 65. These two authors do not say where
the event took place; but there appears to be no reason for
suspecting the indication of Rivo-Torto given by the _Speculum_,
fo. 21a.

[14] 2 Cel., 3, 110. Cf. _Spec._, 22a.

[15] 1 Cel., 47; Bon., 43.

[16] There are few events of the thirteenth century that offer
more documents or are more obscure than this one. The
chroniclers of the most different countries speak of it at
length. Here is one of the shortest but most exact of the
notices, given by an eye-witness (Annals of Genoa of the years
1197-1219, _apud Mon. Germ. hist. Script_., t. 18): 1212 _in
mense Augusti, die Sabbati, octava Kalendarum Septembris,
intravit civitatem Janue quidam puer Teutonicus nomine Nicholaus
peregrinationis causa, et cum eo multitudo maxima pelegrinorum
defferentes cruces et bordonos atque scarsellas ultra septem
millia arbitratu boni viri inter homines et feminas et puellos
et puellas. Et die dominica sequenti de civitate exierunt_.--Cf.
Giacomo di Viraggio: Muratori, t. ix., col. 46: _Dicebant quod
mare debebat apud Januam siccari et sic ipsi debebant in
Hierusalem proficisci. Multi autem inter eos erant filii
Nobilium, quos ipsi etiam cum meretricibus destinarunt (!_) The
most tragic account is that of Alberic, who relates the fate of
the company that embarked at Marseilles. _Mon. Ger. hist.
Script_., t. 23, p. 894.

[17] The Benedictine chronicler, Albert von Stade (_Mon. Ger.
hist. Script_., t. 16, pp. 271-379), thus closes his notice of
the children's crusade: _Adhuc quo devenerint ignorantur sed
plurimi redierunt, a quibus cum quaereretur causa cursus dixerunt
se nescire. Nudae etiam mulieres circa idem tempus nihil
loquentes per villas et civitates cucurrerunt._ _Loc. cit._,
p. 355.

[18] _Chron. Veronese, ann. 1238_ (Muratori, _Scriptores Rer.
Ital._, t. viii., p. 626). Cf. Barbarano de' Mironi: _Hist.
Eccles. di Vicenza_, t. ii., pp. 79-84.

[19] The Brothers were at first called _Viri paenitentiales de
civitate Assisii_ (3 Soc., 37); it appears that they had a
momentary thought of calling themselves _Pauperes de Assisio_,
but they were doubtless dissuaded from this at Rome, as too