[219] Ibid. p. 129b, (165c). In both places there is an explicit reference to Saint Ignatius (of Antioch), “whose heart, when examined after his martyrdom, was found to have written upon it, in letters of gold, the sweet name of Jesus.” Perhaps also two lines of Jacopone da Todi had some influence here. In Loda LXXXVIII, v. 11, he says of the perfected soul: “The heart annihilates itself, undone (melted down) as though it were wax, and finds itself, after this act, bearing the figure (the seal-impression) of Christ Himself.”
[220] Ibid. p. 165c.
[221] These and similar matters will be found carefully studied in the Appendix.
[222] Lode III, XIII, XXXIII, XXXV, XLV, LVIII (a) and (b), LXXIII, LXXV (a) and (b), LXXVII, LXXIX, LXXXI, LXXXIII, LXXXV, LXXXVIII, LXXXIX, LXXXX, LXXXXVII, LXXXXIX.
[223] Vita, pp. 32c, 33a, b. I must refer the reader, once for all, to the Appendix, for the explanation of the methods used in the selection and the emendation of the texts presented in this chapter.
[224] Vita, pp. 29c; 91c; 30b; 55c, 56a; 61a.
[225] Ibid. p. 76c.
[226] Ibid. pp. 101b; 101a; 79c.
[227] Vita, pp. 36b; 80c, 81a; 74b.
[228] Ibid. pp. 9b; ibid., 8c.