The gossip between the Friar and the Seneschal, which is here described by Ciampolo, recalls the Vision of the Sardinian poet Araolla, a dialogue between himself and Gavino Sambigucci, written in the soft dialect of Logodoro, a mixture of Italian, Spanish, and Latin, and beginning:⁠—

“Dulche, amara memoria de giornadas

Fuggitivas cun doppia pena mia,

Qui quanto pìus l’istringo sunt passadas.”

“Dulche, amara memoria de giornadas Fuggitivas cun doppia pena mia, Qui quanto pìus l’istringo sunt passadas.”