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and a Canon of Pistoia, Enrico Bindi. It has been quoted in the great "Vocabolario" of the Academicians of the Crusca, and has therefore become a "Testo di Lingua" or Italian classic.[1] The "Meditazione" is a very free translation indeed from the original Latin. The translator adds beauties and leaves out obscurities at will. It is curious to us in these

  1. See "Bibliografia dei Testi di Lingua a Stampa citati dagli Accademici della Crusca, opera di Luigi Razzolini ed Alberto Bacchi della Lega," 4th Edition. Bologna, 1890.