Having been blessed by the hermits, Anuello and Guerrino set off for Norcia, the latter riding the spare nag Anuello had brought with him. Through God’s grace they eventually reached Anuello’s inn safe and sound.
Chapter Twenty
How Guerrino and Anuello reached the inn, how our hapless lad went to see the Pope, and how the Holy Father imposed a pilgrimage to Saint Patrick’s Purgatory as a penance.
By nightfall they had got as far as Castle Sabine. They lodged there that night, and the following day reached Anuello’s inn in Norcia. Guerrino rested there for three days and then, thanking his host for all his help, he commended himself to God and mounted his horse for Rome. He left his arms and most of his gold and silver with Anuello, taking just enough money to cover the expenses he would
