SS. Augusti, II, Paris 1867, pp. 754-68, and F. Pennacchi,
Assisi 1910; Italian trans., Florence 1919 and Sancasiano Val di Pesa
1925. An abridged reworking in B. Mombrutius, Sanctuarium, I, ed.
Solennes 1910, pp. 292-97; Legenda versificata ed. B. Bughetti, in
Arch. franc. hist., 5 (1912), pp. 237-60, 459-81; Gaudia s. Clarae
Assis., ed. L. Oliger, ibid., 12 (1919), pp. 110-31; Z. Lazzeri, Il
Processo di canonizzazione di S. C. d’A., ibid., 13 (1920), pp. 403-507,
and extract Quaracchi 1920 (ancient Italian trans. of the lost Latin
text). Recent literature is abundant: M. Beaufront, St. Claire d’Assise,
Paris 1916; Z. Lazzeri, La vita di S. C., Quaracchi 1920; Vita di S.
C. composed by Ugolino Verino, Florentine citizen (c. 1496), luxury
ed. by W. Seton, Chelsea 1921; A. Henrion, Sorella C., Milan 1921,
2nd ed. Turin 1925; id., S. C. d’A., in Arch. franc. hist., 19 (1926),
pp. 579-609; F. Casolini, Speculum sine turbine clarum, s. C. d’A.,
Milan 1927; L. Bracaloni, S. C. d’A., ibid. 1928.
Iconography. — Painters of the late 1200s or 1300s often depicted
the salient events of her earthly life, and Giotto himself portrayed her
in the upper church at Assisi and in Santa Croce, Florence, surrounded
by her nuns as she venerates, near the church of San Damiano, the
body of St Francis. A half-length spiritual image of her was painted by
Simone Martini in the transept of the lower church of San Francesco,
also in Assisi.
Later, St Clare is almost always shown holding the Ostensorium,
recalling the courageous gesture with which she had imposed herself
and driven off the soldiery of Vitale d’Aversa, who was besieging Assisi
from San Damiano. — See Plate LXXXVII.