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^As it was expected (by me, in any case), the title "The desire of glossing" does not work at all. In English, at least. Only a few weeks ago, Jeremy Lawrance had expressed his doubts about my title, which, by all means, meant that there was something very wrong about it. Now I understand what is it, thanks to Vincent Barletta . I guess that I should be finding a new title. Maybe just Gloss and a subtitle. Or perhaps something more intriguing like Outskirts of the Text, or something like that. It does not matter for now. It will in some months.

Today I have dates almost for sure. I can state, with a certain degree of confidence, the moment in which the activity of glossing and self-glossing for private, intellectual matters (as opposed to schoiarly, professional matters). This moment seems to be the third third of the 14th Century, and, more precisely some time between 1370-1375. Before 1375, the year in which Giovanni Boccaccio gave his soul to the creator. Let's say, then, 1370. With an important turning point in France, around 1400, thanks to Christine de Pizan, and then with a splendorous moment in Castile between circa 1400 to circa 1480, which is to say from the first texts created in the environment of Henri III of Castile to the death of Diego de Valera, one of the most prolific self-glossators ever. The golden moment, nevertheless, should be situated between 1438 (year in which Juan de Mena comments on his Coronación) to more or less 1450, after Valera and Pedro de Avis have already finished the bulk of their self-glossed work.

These are coordinates. Lines in a map. Whithout them, although annoying and probably inoperative from a theoretical viewpoint, there would be no possibility to actually draw the map. So, it's good news.