St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 167
no glory about her head. Above is a tablet in-scribed :— NATIVITASSANCTI JOHAXNIS BAPTISTS and below another tablet, with the date and artists name—FRAN TUPtESSIYS V.F. MDCXXVIII. By • right and * left in this appendix is meant always the rightand left hand of the spectator as he faces his… … c. He is led into the desert.—The words of the legends are :—• ►> QVOM ^GELV SEDOVXAT S. lOHAN.I. DESERTUM. Quomodo angelus seduxit (?) sanctum Johannem in desertum.How an angel led away saint John into the desert. This is not bibhcal. * And the child grew and waxed strongin spirit, and was in…
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