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THE MAHERS OF FLORENCE. US
the speedy severance from home and friends which awaited,
the young magnifico, in pleasant ease of friendship and
familiar compliment, and with a painter’s admiration for
the beautiful countenance yet unworn with anything worse
than the sweet sorrows of a visionary love, Giotto set
The Bargello, ancient Palace of the Podesta.
Dante in the front of his group, and thus preserved to us
forever such a softened representation of the poet’s face,
and along with it of bis character, as has been most grate-
fully received by all lovers of Dante. Giotto was about
ten years younger than the poet, who had scarcely then
the speedy severance from home and friends which awaited,
the young magnifico, in pleasant ease of friendship and
familiar compliment, and with a painter’s admiration for
the beautiful countenance yet unworn with anything worse
than the sweet sorrows of a visionary love, Giotto set
The Bargello, ancient Palace of the Podesta.
Dante in the front of his group, and thus preserved to us
forever such a softened representation of the poet’s face,
and along with it of bis character, as has been most grate-
fully received by all lovers of Dante. Giotto was about
ten years younger than the poet, who had scarcely then