Crossword-Solution: EXULTET 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

CHAPTER VI ITALIAN ILLUMINATION Barbaric character of Italian illumination in the twelfth century--Ravenna and Pavia the earliest centres of revival--The "Exultet"--La Cava and Monte Cassino--The writers of early Italian MSS.

Such a roll was called an "Exultet" from its first word, which is the beginning of the line "Exultet jam Angelica turba cælorum" of the hymn for the benediction of the paschal wax tapers on Easter Eve.

Here, as a sample, are two stanzas, both of the original and of the parody, this last having, as it seems, been composed in England: Letabundus Exultet fidelis chorus, Alleluia! Regem Regum Intacte perfundit thorus: Res miranda! Angelus consilii Natus est de Virgine, Sol de Stella, Sol occasum nesciens, Stella semper rutilans, Semper clara.

But in the march of the human mind nothing now remains of the Ambrosian chant in its purity, save the "Exultet," as it is called, which is a hymn sung in the Latin Church during the blessing of the Paschal candle on Holy Saturday.

Giorgio, where the following verses were set up after a time in praise of Lazzaro: ARETII EXULTET TELLUS CLARISSIMA; NAMQUE EST REBUS IN ANGUSTIS, IN TENUIQUE LABOR.