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Dear co-mailers I had recently the occasion to notice how widespread were representations of Pope Urban V in votive images of the later Middle Ages, but I cannot yet understand which were the original motivations of this cult. In a passage of his Letters, Franco Sacchetti remembers Urban V as a new saint deserving an overwhelming popular veneration. Was such a phenomenon due to the invention of the heads of Sts Peter and Paul, or to the Pope's temporary restitution of Pontifical dignity to Rome? I will appreciate every information on this particular subject. Thank you in advance Michele Bacci Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa (Italy) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%