We should find the history of that house probably in Sassolini's _Memorials_.

Will you get it down, dear ?--top shelf of the fifth case, on the left." Though blind, he knew just where he could put his hand upon all his most cherished volumes, and woe betide any one who put a volume back in its wrong place! Gabrielle rose, and, obtaining the steps, reached down the great leather-bound quarto book, which she carried to a reading-desk and at once searched the index.
The work was in Italian, a language which she knew fairly well; and after ten minutes or so, during which time the blind man continued slowly to trace the inscription with his finger-tips, she said, "Here it is, dad.

'Rancia, near Cremona.

The religious brotherhood was founded there in 1132, and the Abbot Benedict was third abbot, from 1218 to 1231.

The church still exists.