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 the "Meditazione," which has for long been so scarce as to be almost unprocurable. The editor, Don Salvatore Minocchi, a Florentine priest, and one of the foremost authorities on matters Franciscan, than whom there could be no one more fitted for the task, has carefully collated the original edition of the "Meditazione" with the Codex from which it was taken, and has removed quite a host

Fanfani and Bindi, and as the "Meditazione" it has become a Tuscan classic under the ægis of the Crusca.]
 * [Footnote: as the "Meditazione" first published by