[5] From the first sonnet, beginning, Voi ch'ascoltate.

[6] Gaspary, Geschichte der italienischen Literatur, 1885, i., 480.

[7] Cf. Preface to Dialogus de Contemptu Mundi, as the work is called in the Basle editions. Many MSS. entitle the work more appropriately De Secreto Conflictu Curarum Suarum. Cf. Voigt, op. cit., p. 132.

[8] See below, pp. [93] sqq. and [404] sqq.

[9] For example the familiar,

Dies iræ, dies illa,
Solvet sæclum in favilla.

or Abelard's lines:

In hac urbe lux solemnis,
Ver æternum, pax perennis.
In hac odor implens cœlos,
In hac semper festum melos.

[10] See below, p. [233] sqq.

[11] Letter to Posterity.