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Florence (1901)

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · Boston : L. C. Page · leaf 269

An illustration from Florence, 1901, leaf 269
sanceshrine, all glorious from the hands of Lorenzo5^^ v^^*^-;, Ghiberti. At San Miniato del Monte, however,-c^^ we do really come upon a saint of the earliest^^^^^»~. layer of Christian martyrology, still enshrined in^^^^j^a church of early date and of fine Romanesque^^^^^^^ architecture. Minias… … San Miniato. 191 encamped outside the city of Florence, on thehill which now bears his name, Miniatus con-fessed the truth, and was condemned to bethrown to the beasts in the amphitheatre —who of course declined to harm him. The usualvaried attempts to kill him which followed, allfailed in the…

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