Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 38
pt to spin them outinto several hundred, without any considerable materialin the way of authentic detail, leads inevitably to Aveak-ness and exaggeration. In this respect the * Rappresen-tazioni are neither much worse nor much better than theaverage Legenda vSanctorum in verse or prose. They… … FROM ANTONIA PULClS RAPPRESENTAZIONE DI S. FRANCESCO, S.A. instead of in historical narration, that they differ verygreatly from them. Thus, to take the plays from whichwe have chosen our illustrations, that of S. Francis ofAssisi, by Antonia Pulci, faithfully records all the main 26 OLD PICTURE…
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