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Ravenna, a study (1913)

Hutton, Edward, 1875- · London, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton · leaf 281

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this Messer Antonio, who was a very great gambler, hadbeen gambling one day and had lost nearly all he possessed.Being in despair, he entered the church of the Friars Minor, MEDIEVAL RAVENNA 249 where there is the tomb which holds the body of the Florentinepoet Dante, and having seen an antique… … M^^i^- Portal of S. Giovanni Evangelista burning there and going to the tomb of Dante he placed thembefore it saying, Take them, for thou art far more worthyof them than it is. The people beholding this and marvellinggreatly said, * What doth this man ? And they all lookedat one another. . . .…

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