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Italian courtesy-books

Note 16 — THE FIFTY COURTESIES FOR THE TABLE, OF FRA BONVESINO[13] DA RIVA.

William Michael Rossetti translation

Signor Biondelli understands this stanza in a somewhat different sense, as applying to the assigning of dishes, not the signing of the cross as a grace before meat. The reference to Christ seems to me to create a strong presumption in favour of my interpretation.

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