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The story of Siena and San Gimignano (1902)

Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 417

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of rhetoric ;even so might young Pico deila Mirandola have lookedwhen he first came to Florence. This somewhat,indeed, recalls the style of the Procession of the Magiin the Palazzo Riccardi, but is naturally in a morechastened style. Above, two white-robed, green-wingedAngels bear a scroll in… … In the Toivn of the Beautiful Towers of Ambrose, is received by the Emperor Theodosius.After this he listens to St Ambrose preaching, StMonica kneels before the latter (whom, writes theSaint, she loved as an Angel of God), and Augustinebegins to be convinced. On the window wall we havethe wonderful…

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