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a fresco by signorelli 381
V
A FRESCO BY SIGNORELLI
A WEEK later Father Gondo was in Rome. He
obtained audience with the aged man at the Vatican,
and related to him how, under the guise of Christ,
he had found Antichrist, who had insnared the people
of Diamante into worldliness, and how Father Gondo
had wished to burn him. He also said that he had
not been able to lead the people back to God.
Instead, all Diamante had reverted to unbelief and
socialism. No one there troubled himself about his
soul, no one thought of heaven. Father Gondo
asked what he should do with these wretched people.
The aged pope, who is the wisest of all now living,
did not laugh at Father Gondo’s narrative, but
became deeply distressed.
" You have done wrong, you have done very
wrong," he said.
He sat silent a while thinking, then he said : " You
have not seen the dome in Orvieto ? "
" No, holy father."—" Go and see it then," said the
pope, " and when you return you shall tell me what
you have seen there."
Father Gondo obeyed. He went to Orvieto and
saw the sacred dome. And in two days he was
again in the Vatican.
" What have you seen in Orvieto ? " asked the pope,
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