Excerpt from The Making of a Saint: A Romance of Mediaeval Italy

These are the memoirs of the Beatus Giuliano, brother of the Order of St. Francis of Assisi, known in his worldly life as Filippo Brandolini, of which family I, Giulo Brandolini, am the last descendant. On the death of Fra Giuliano, the manuscript was given to his nephew, Leonello, on whom the estates devolved, and has since been handed down from father to son, as the relic of a member of the family whose piety and good works still shed lustre on the name of Brandolini.

It is, perhaps, necessary to explain how the resolution to give these memoirs to the world has eventually been arrived at. For my part, I should have allowed them to remain among the other papers of the family; but my wife wished otherwise.

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