To this day all the children of the town are baptized there; the other churches are without fonts.
[7] 3 Soc., 1; 2 Cel., 1, 1.

Vide also 3 Soc., edition of Pesaro, 1831.
[8] The _langue d'oil_ was at this epoch the international language of Europe; in Italy it was the language of games and tourneys, and was spoken in the petty princely courts of Northern Italy.

Vide Dante, _De vulgari eloquio_, lib.

I., cap.
x.

Brunetto Latini wrote in French because "the speech of France is more delectable and more common to all people." At the other end of Europe the Abbot of Stade, in Westphalia, spoke of the _nobility of the Gallic dialect_.