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 ideas, and is admirably illustrative of the "Sacrum Commercium." For this reason we have given it a place in the Appendix. It is also interesting as being the probable source whence Dante drew his beautiful idea that the Lady Poverty was more privileged than the Blessed Virgin, insomuch as she followed the Lord up on to the very Cross itself:

"Si che, dove Maria rimase giuso, Ella con Cristo salse in su la croce." *