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Eighth stanza: The mother of the virtues is humilitashumilitas, opposed to superbiasuperbia; Mary’s humility is an important motif in her eulogy (DanteDante: umile … più che creatura), based, in the tradition, on Luke 1, 38ff.; it is opposed to Eve’s superbia (DanteDante, Purgatorio, xxix, 25–27). The words subisti remedium etc. and the following stanza refer to Luke 2, 22–24, cf. Lev. 12, 6–8.35

Eleventh stanzaStanze: the theme of laughter (cui parvus arrisit tunc) is very widespread, but there is some variation concerning the person who is laughing; in a sequence of the twelfth century, to be analysed later (‘Candor surgens ut aurora’), it is Mary’s mother Anne: matris risus te signavit (fourth stanza); in another of the same period, ‘De sancta Maria Aegyptiaca,’36 Christ is called noster risus; Adam de Saint-VictorAdam v. St. Victor, ‘In Resurrtiecone Domini Sequentia’37 designates Christ as

puer nostri forma risus,

pro quo vervex est occisus.

This last quotation explains the meaning: it is again Isaac as figura Christi with an allusion to Isaac’s name and Sarah’s words referring to it: risum fecit mihi Dominus (Gen. 21, 6); it is the joy caused by the birth of the long awaited miraculous child, who may laugh too, and be called noster risus, the gaudium magnum of Luke 2, 10. I am inclined to assume that VergilVergil’s Fourth Eclogue38 has also contributed to this figure; the mediaeval interpretation of VergilVergil’s text as a prophecy of Christ is well known.