Of the text itself, I have very little to say. Descartes once observed that a fool can raise more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in a life. The text of Cavalcanti wa~ already practically established, there always will be divergences in the selection of some readings and as we have been provided by the new editor with a very good choice of variants, it is up to us to pick up the best among them, when we do not agree with his own decision. I wish rather to consider the general interpretation of Cavalcanti which is everywhere implied in this new edition and to submit a few remarks concerning what might possibly be a safer approach to such a subject.