Note *156 — Chapter L
Reading edition
How could Italy have a ballad poetry full of national sentiment before she became a nation? Her living poetry then and for centuries before, as now, is the Rispetto. Cf., for the Poesie Popolari generally, D'Ancona, La Poesia Popolare Italiana (Livorno, 1906); for the Marche especially Gianandrea, Canti Popolari Marchigiani (Torino, Loescher, 1875).