"Avemmaria grazia piena, domino teco beneditta e frustris, e mulieri
busse e benedetti fruttus ventris tui eiusse!
"Santa Maria Materdei, ora pro nobisse, pecatoribusse, tinche, tinona,
mortis nostrisse.--Ammenne!"
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These specimens of Italianised Latin are not so grotesque as some which
were written out for me in all seriousness by a poor woman. A specimen
of the latter is given in my work on "Etruscan-Roman Traditions."
Last of all, there came to me a small tale of little value, save that it
professes to account for the reason why so many cats have ever flourished
and been nourished in the cloister of San Lorenzo, these felines being,
indeed, in a small way among the lions of Florence. It is as follows:--