The one designed for children of eleven: Il Sussidiario della Quinta Elementare (cf. note GK 22).

Prayer for Rain … prayer for serenity: Pound translates Italian versions of ancient Roman prayers found in the eighthcentury book of liturgy and ritual, Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae (The Gelasian Sacramentary). The first prayer is one of several orisons to plead for rain, Orationes ad pluviam postulandam, followed by Orationes ad poscendam serenitatem (“Prayers for Serenity”).

Hilarity … l'ilarità: Cf. Plethon's concept of divinity in Canto 98, “‘By Hilaritas’, said Gemisto, ‘by hilaritas: gods; / and by speed in communication’” (98/705). At a secular level of signification, Canto 83 invokes Eriugenian “Hilaritas the virtue hilaritas,” which Mark Byron defines as “robust moral vigour” (83/548).

Il Cantico del Sole of St. Francis: The Canticle of the Sun, by the Italian monk and founder of the Franciscan order, St. Francis of Assisi (c.1182–1226), is a prelapsarian, Edenic poem about the natural world recreated by Christian redemption and salvation. The Cantico dwells on the beauty, sacramentality, and harmony of nature.

Fogazzaro on the bells: Italian novelist and poet Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) included the choral lyric “Campane a sera” (“Evening bells”) in his collection of lyrics, Vasolda (1876). Like St. Francis's Cantico, Fogazzaro's poetry concerns a mystical vision of nature in which the divine plan is clearly perceptible.

a bit of Manzoni: Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian Romantic poet, novelist, and playwright, author of the immensely popular novel, I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) (1825–27).

“I Templi” of Silvio Pellico: (1789–1854), Italian nationalist poet and tragedian, who achieved great success with his tragedy Francesca da Rimini (1815). There is no poem titled “I Templi” (“The Temples”) in his Opere di Silvio Pellico da Salluzo (1834). However, Pound might have been thinking of the analogous poem “I Santuarii” (“The Shrines”).