[362] This Life is prefixed to Salviano's Roman edition of Jacopone's hymns, 1558.
[363] The biographer adds, "Ma fu si horribile e spiacevole a vedere che conturbò tutta quella festa, lasciando ogniuno pieno di amaritudine."
[364] See above, [p. 284]. The seventeenth-century editor of Jacopone and his followers, Tresatti, has justly styled this repulsive but characteristic utterance, "invettiva terribile contro di se."
[365] Op. cit. p. 109.
[366] Ibid. p. 77.
[367] Ibid. p. 122. See [Appendix].
[368] Ibid. p. 45.
[369] It is printed in Salviano's, and reproduced in Tresatti's edition. I have followed the reading offered by D'Ancona, Origini del Teatro, vol. i. p. 142. See Translation in [Appendix].
[370] The word Corrotto, used by Mary, means lamentation for the dead. It corresponds to the Greek Threnos, Corsican Vocero, Gaelic Coronach.
[371] Le Poesie spirituali del Beato Jacopone da Todi. In Venetia, appresso Niccolò Miserrimi, MDCXVII. The book is a thick 4to, consisting of 1,055 pages, closely printed. It contains a voluminous running commentary. The editor, Tresatti, a Minorite Friar, says he had extracted 211 Cantici of Jacopone from MSS. belonging to his Order, whereas the Roman and Florentine editions, taken together, contained 102 in all. He divides them into seven sections: (1) Satires, (2) Moral Songs, (3) Odes, (4) Penitential Hymns, (5) The Theory of Divine Love, (6) Spiritual Love Poems, (7) Spiritual Secrets. This division corresponds to seven stages in the soul's progress toward perfection. The arrangement is excellent, though the sections in some places interpenetrate. For variety of subjects, the collection is a kind of lyrical encyclopædia, touching all needs and states of the devout soul. It might supply material for meditation through a lifetime to a heart in harmony with its ascetic and erotically enthusiastic tone.