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The rest of this fascinating text can be found on my website at the link
below.
> On the 27th day of July 1439, I, Giovanni di Jacopo di Latino de'
> Pigli, finding myself, at the hour of terce or a little before, in the
> public square of Peretola, saw coming along the road from Prato Messer
> Angelo di Jacopo Acciaiuoli with some servants. He went right up to
> the door of the church of Peretola, and knocked several times. Seeing
> that it was not opened, I went up to him and asked what he was doing,
> and what he wanted of the prior, if he did not mind my inquiring. He
> answered me:
> "I come from Pistoia and Prato in the suite of the Emperor of
> Constantinople, who wanted to go see Pistoia and the Girdle of Our
> Lady at Prato, and I was assigned to his suite by the Signoria. And
> because the hour is late for us to get to Florence to eat, and he is
> tired and sick as you know, I wanted to put him up in the church until
> this evening."
http://nauplion.net/CP-John-Texts.html [scroll down]
I had always assumed that locking churches was a modern thing, but this
suggests it is not. Could people camp out in churches when they were
travelling? [My father and I did in West Africa in the 50s.]
Comments?
DW
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