Dei Regesten des Kaiserreichs unter Philipp, Otto IV._, etc., Insbruck, 1879, 4to, pp.

96 and 97.

As this account follows that of the approval, they conclude that the latter was earlier.

But Thomas of Celano puts this account there because the context led up to it, and not in order to fix its date.
Everything leads to the belief that the Brothers retired (_recolligebat_, 1 Cel., 42) to Rivo-Torto before and after their journey to Rome.

Besides, the time between April 23d and the middle of August, 1209, is much too short for all that the biographers tell us about the life of the Brothers before their visit to Innocent III.