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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER III
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She resembles nothing more than a duenna of the type of Martha in Goethe's Faust.

Here, again, the allegory would point a scathing sarcasm, if we did not remember the naivete of the Renaissance.
[62] See above, Chapter II, Italian want of feeling for Gothic.
[63] Having said so much about this pulpit of S.Andrea, I am sorry that I cannot refer the English reader to any accessible representation of it.
For its sake alone, if for no other purpose, Pistoja is well worth a visit.
[64] It was long believed that he died of eating poisoned figs.
[65] See above, Footnote 16, for the original conception of this motive at Orvieto.
[66] See _Il Duomo di Orvieto, descritto ed illustrato per Lodovico Luzi_, pp.

330-339.
[67] See Luzi, pp.

317-328, and the first extant commission given in 1310 to Maitani, which follows, pp.

328-330.
[68] The whole series has been admirably engraved under the superintendence of Ludwig Gruener.


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