Note 422 — Chapter V

See the oldest edition of the Laudi di Feo Belcari, Florence 1485, printed three years after Lucrezia’s death, and Fr. Cionacci’s Rime sacre di Lorenzo de’ Medici unitamente a quelle di Madonna Lucrezia sua madre, Flor. 1680 and Bergamo 1760, as well as the Galletti collection before mentioned. Crescimbeni (Della volgar poesia, ii. 277) is inclined to place Lucrezia above most, if not all, poets of her time; but Crescimbeni is a weak critic. The Lauds begin: (I.) ‘Ecco ’l Messia’ (resembling the ‘Venite adoremus’ of the Church); (II.) ‘Venite pastori’; (III.) ‘Contempla le mie pene o peccatore;’ (IV.) ‘Ecco il Re forte;’ (V.) ‘Vien il messagio;’ (VI.) ‘Ben venga Osanna.’