“And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.”

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This story of Trajan is told in nearly the same words, though in prose, in the Fiore di Filosofi , a work attributed to Brunetto Latini. See Nannucci, Manuale della Letteratura del Prima Secolo , in. 291. It may be found also in the Legenda Aurea , in the Cento Novelle Antiche , Nov. 67, and in the Life of St. Gregory , by Paulus Diaconus.