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Venice and its story (1910)

Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London, J. M. Dent ; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 424

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ng after he had languished there for five years thejailer on entering his dungeon saw it flooded with a brightlight, the prisoner dead, and a writing which promisedhealing to all stricken by plague who should call on hisname. In 1485 some Venetians disguised as pilgrimscarried off the saints body… … ouo < OO in SCUOLA DI S. ROCCO 285 in the fifteenth century. The Scuola was begun aboutthe same time (1490) by the same architect, carried onby the Lombardi and Scarpagnino (1524-37) and com-pleted about 1550. Here during eighteen years Tintorettoworked on the stupendous series of paintings…

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