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>* Agnes of Assisi, virgin (1253) >- sister of St Claire of Assisi; abbess of convent of Monticelli in >Paris, she supervised many foundations > > >I faintly recall a brief association of Agnes with Monteluce, the convent >of the Poor Clares in Perugia; but surely you don't mean Paris? Who now >believes that Giotto learned to paint there; or that Dante attended its >great University, perhaps sitting at the feet of Aquinas! > >Gary Dickson >University of Edinburgh Not sure about Giotto, but quite a few people still hold the belief about Dante's Parisian sojourn - I had a spirited discussion about it over lunch with a colleague just the other day! (And, not unrelatedly perhaps, I also have an article in the works on W. E. Gladstone and Dante that includes some consideration of his argument that Dante's wanderings in search of enlightenment took him not only to Paris but on to, of all unlikely places [ut alumnus Cantabrigiensis loquor] Oxford...) Steven Botterill Associate Professor & Chair Italian Studies 3335 Dwinelle Hall #2620 University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2620 (510) 642-6246/642-9884 (FAX) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%