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THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE.
We are not told whether Pico, when his beloved friar
came back, made Fra Girolamo’s teaching fashionable in
Florence ; but no doubt he had his share in indicating to
the curious the new genius which had risen up in their
midst. And as the frate lectured to the boy-Dominicans,
discoursing of everything in heaven and earth with full
Corridor in San Marco.
heart and inspired countenance, there grew gradually
about him a larger audience, gathering behind the young
heads of that handful of convent lads, an ever-widening
circle of weightier listeners—men of Florence, one bring-
ing another to hear a man who spoke with authority, and
had, if not pretty periods to please their ears, something
to tell them—greatest of all attractions to the ever-curious
goul of man
THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE.
We are not told whether Pico, when his beloved friar
came back, made Fra Girolamo’s teaching fashionable in
Florence ; but no doubt he had his share in indicating to
the curious the new genius which had risen up in their
midst. And as the frate lectured to the boy-Dominicans,
discoursing of everything in heaven and earth with full
Corridor in San Marco.
heart and inspired countenance, there grew gradually
about him a larger audience, gathering behind the young
heads of that handful of convent lads, an ever-widening
circle of weightier listeners—men of Florence, one bring-
ing another to hear a man who spoke with authority, and
had, if not pretty periods to please their ears, something
to tell them—greatest of all attractions to the ever-curious
goul of man