Max Pemberton

“ It has been my hope in these sketches to portray in Frà Giovanni, the Capuchin monk, something of that connection of idea which permitted a priest to wield so great an influence in a Republic which by no means loved priests. Nor do I think that the measure of authority here permitted to Frà Giovanni would have been denied to the great friar who won religious liberty for the Venetians.
For the story "A Miracle of Bells," the Spanish Conspiracy is my authority. It is curious that a church figured so often in the narratives of such plottings as these. ”