ABSTRACT
Sources for the papal caravan itself are fragmentary, and information on Innocent's nomadic lifestyle is difficult to find in any systematic way. The early years of the thirteenth century have left none of those ample end-of-century lists which survived to detail both the expenses of Boniface VIII and the personnel accompanying him on his peregrinations. Maccarrone considered at some length Innocent's novel decision to raise the profile of Viterbo in Tuscia Romana as a papal 'summer station', and the significance of the Pope's visit to Orvieto in 1216. Local sources supplement the information given in the Gesta by providing details of local events occurring along the papal route. The Cistercian monk-chronicler William, abbot of Andres in Picardy, himself a petitioner and Curia-watcher, confirms that Innocent gladly spent the summer at Viterbo in 1207 and adds the vital personal details of an involved eyewitness to the rather more bureaucratic account of the Gesta.
