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A Florentine picture-chronicle; being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing scenes and personages of ancient history, sacred and profane (1898)

Finiguerra, Maso, 1426-1464, Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 · London, B. Quaritch · leaf 293

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of high ornate tiara, stabs herself above the breast with a great dagger, not amidst her handmaidens in the chamber and on the couch of her and Aeneas’ loves, according to the tale told by Virgil, but alone on the shore outside the city gates. Her left hand is retracted from the wrist with the…

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