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Scope and Contents Domenico Cavalca (c. 1270-1342) was a member of the Dominican order, author of several religious treatises and translator of important Latin works. Although its attribution to Cavalca is not certain, this text is the translation into vernacular of the Latin work De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientie, sometimes attributed to San Bonaventura, but written by Matthew of Kraków (d. 1410). It is centred on the importance and the modalities of the sacrament...