It is true, I admired the Sienese very much," he added, turning toward Dorsenne.

"I spent three months in copying the Simone Martini of the municipality, the Guido Riccio, who rides between two strongholds on a gray heath, where there is not a sign of a tree or a house, but only lances and towers.

Do I remember Lorenzetti?
Above all, the fresco at San Francesco, in which Saint Francois presents his order to the Pope, that was his best work....

Then, there is a cardinal, with his fingers on his lips, thus!" another gesture.

"Well, I remember it, you see, because there is an anecdote.