(1) Vitelli’s motto on critical conservatism quoted by Pasquali in his review to Maas’ Textkritikwas probably inspired by a passage of É. Tournier’s Exercises critiques. (2) The expression ‘diagnosticconjectures’ used by Maas in the Rückblick 1956 was probably suggested by a passageof Pasquali’s review of the Textkritik.