Responsories for Holy Week nocturn of Maundy Thursday are from Saint Augustines "Enarrationes in Psalmos" Second of Poulenc's "Sept répons des ténèbres". The lessons for the third nocturn of Maundy Thursday are from 1 Corinthians II: 17-34 First of Poulenc's "Sept répons des ténèbres". Good Friday is the sixth day (Latin: Feria VI or Feria Sexta) of the Holy Week. In Latin the occasion is also indicated as "In Parasceve" (Parasceve being Latin for Friday). Thus the second set of nine responsories for Holy Week can appear under titles such as "Feria VI – In Parasceve". The lessons of the first nocturn of Good
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