Note 530 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
Springer, Das altprovenzalische Klagelied, Berlin, 1895, pp. 8 ff. It is this formal poem of grief which is in the mind of Crescimbeni, Comentarj Intorno all’ Istoria della Volgar Poesia, 1731, I. 256, when he traces the Italian funeral song back to Latin and Greek.