Quincy,
Duh! I'm a little dense sometimes. BBB!
Michael,
Her words, which he quotes in an obscure work, are:
"Chi e quel pazzo chi sparge questi cartelloni..."
(who is this nut who's scattering these posters around?)
sparge (from spargere - to scatter, spread) may be an indirect allusion to the name he gives his collection--"Rime Sparse" (Scattered Verse)-- in Sonnet 1.
I didn't know you were such a Petrarchan scholar!
Marion