Schlatter — The Development of the Vowel. 1111 
spidale (and even pirucca, beside perrucca) ; but pepone, pre- 
gione, fenire, menuto, prencipio, celendrare, empossibolo, and 
among the peasants segura (for scure), seguro, defatti, defetto, 
and in tbe mountains degiuno. Salvioni’s notes on old and 
modern Lucehese; 17 very decidedly I, -—criatore, distinn, dili- 
zie, dilicate, disidera, difinire, dilivransa, rispiro, ristituire, 
risistenza, riplicare, rigistrato, tinere, spiloncha, sicuri, tin- 
cione, diserto (and de-), dimeriti, dilegati, dicollare, dicapi- 
tati (and even virone, for verone). 
Fagnano: 18 decidedly I: but emposte (besides imponere), 
nessuno, lealmente, seppellire (also sera, seranno, and less fre¬ 
quently sa-). 
A document of 1300 involving Pisa and Lucca: 19 decidedly 
I, even midicina, rifictorio, disideramento, rimiti, pigiori, ri- 
cente, ligaltade, criato, mistieri (and sirebbe) ; but vettoria 
(beside vitt-). 
Pisa.—A thirteenth century document 20 prefers I, but enten- 
da (beside intensa), temore, neente. 21 Another document of 
about 1275 (?): 22 regularly I, but de (beside di), leansa, en 
(rarely, usually in). Another of the thirteenth century: 28 
regularly I, but occasionally en (for in). Another of 1279: 24 
shows I. Another of 1279 : 25 regularly I,- divota, Biatrice, 
lione, ispitale, isciente (for uscente), Grigoro; but el (beside 
il), rebellione (beside ribelli), secundo (probably Latin), de 
(usually di), sepulto (Latin?). Pieri’s article: 26 shows I, but 
greater inclination to E than in Lucca, -sigondo, sicura (for 
scure), issuto (and essuto), vissica, firire, dicina, iscire, mis- 
chino, pricisione (for pre-) pricissione (for processione, by 
17. AG XVI 395-477. 
13. 1391: sec Sforza, Prop. V, parte 2a, pp. 396-408. Fagnano ia four 
or five miles oat of Lucca. 
19. See Barbi, in the Raccolta D’Ancona, 241-259. 
20. Monaci, pp. 78-80. 
21. However, this is a conventional canzone, written by a troubadour. 
22. Monaci, pp. 195-198. 
23. Monaci, pp. 198-200. 
24. Monaci, pp. 356-357,—not very illuminating for our purpose. 
25. Monaci, pp. 357-359. 
26. AG XII, pp. 141-180. See note 16 of this §. Yet such forms as 
firire, vissica, etc., at once suggest a tendency to umlaut caused by 
the accented I. 
