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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER VI
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We have seen his cantoria in the Museum of the Cathedral.

Here is another, not so riotous and jocund in spirit, but in its own way hardly less satisfying.

The Museum cantoria has the wonderful frieze of dancing figures; this is an exercise in marble intarsia.

It has the same row of pillars with little specks of mosaic gold; but its beauty is that of delicate proportions and soft tones.

The cantoria is in the left aisle, in its original place; the two bronze pulpits are in the nave.


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