[344] Upon this point consult Rubieri, op. cit. chap. xiv. In Sicily the Ciure, says Pitrè, is reckoned unfit for an honest woman's mouth.
[345] The South seems richer in this material than the Center. See Pitrè's Canti Pop. Sic. vol. ii., among the Leggende e Storie, especially La Comare, Minni-spartuti, Principessa di Carini, L'Innamorata del Diavolo, and some of the bandit songs.
[346] Palermo, Lauriel, 1875.
[347] Canti Monferrini (Torino-Firenze, Loescher, 1870), pp. 1, 6, 14, 26, 28, 34, 42. One of the ballads cited above, La Sisilia, is found in Sicily.
[348] Ibid. p. 48.
[349] It does not occur in the Canti Monferrini.
[350] See my letter to the Rassegna Settimanale, March 9, 1879, on the subject of this ballad. Though I begged Italian students for information respecting similar compositions my letter only elicited a Tuscan version of the Donna Lombarda.
[351] Op. cit. p. 106.
[352] D'Ancona, op. cit. p. 106.
[353] Ibid. pp. 99, 105.