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Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3

CHAPTER IV
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_L'Art Chretien_, vol.i.p.

57.
[148] See Muratori, vol.xxiii., or the passage translated by me in Vol.
I., _Age of the Despots_, p.

480.
[149] His "Madonna" in S.Domenico is dated 1221.

For a full discussion of Guido da Siena's date, see Crowe and Cavalcaselle, vol.i.

pp.
180-185.
[150] On their coins the Sienese struck this legend: "Sena vetus Civitas Virginis." It will be remembered how the Florentines, two centuries and a half later, dedicated their city to Christ as king.
[151] Date of birth unknown; date of death, about 1320.
[152] He is better known as Simone Memmi, a name given to him by a mistake of Vasari's.


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