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 and a Canon of Pistoia, Enrico Bindi. It has been quoted in the great "Vocabolario" of the Academicians of the Crusca, and has therefore become a "Testo di Lingua" or Italian classic. The "Meditazione" is a very free translation indeed from the original Latin. The translator adds beauties and leaves out obscurities at will. It is curious to us in these