Responsories for Holy Week Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively, rather than on a sequence of names referring to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday respectively. The responsories following each lesson of these matins (so also 27) were usually sung, and these are the Tenebrae Responsoria, or the Responsories for Holy Week. The name of a collection of such responsories may also refer to the Holy Triduum, as in Orlande de Lassus' "". Maundy Thursday is the fifth day of the Holy Week (Latin: Feria V or Feria Quinta). In Latin the feast is also indicated as "In Cœna Domini" ("At the meal
Italian literature was rapid. As early as the end of the 13th century the "Devozioni del Giovedi e Venerdi Santo" appeared, mixing liturgy and drama. Later, "di un Monaco che ando al servizio di Dio" ("of a monk who entered the service of God") approached the definite form the religious drama would assume in the following centuries. 13th-century Tuscany was in a unique situation. The Tuscans spoke a dialect that closely resembled Latin and afterward became, almost exclusively, the language of literature, and which was already regarded at the end of the 13th century as surpassing other dialects. "Lingua Tusca magis apta