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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XIII
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The lines of it are peculiarly lovely.
On the wall of the same little chapel is a fresco by Cosimo Rosselli which must once have been a delight, representing a procession of Corpus Christi--this chapel being dedicated to the miracle of the Sacrament--and it contains, according to Vasari, a speaking likeness of Pico della Mirandola.

Other graves in the church are those of Cronaca, the architect of the Palazzo Vecchio's great Council Room, a friend of Savonarola and Rosselli's nephew by marriage; and Verrocchio, the sculptor, whose beautiful work we are now to see in the Bargello.

It is said that Lorenzo di Credi also lies here, and Albertinelli, who gave up the brush for innkeeping.
Opposite the church, on a house at the corner of the Borgo S.Croce and the Via de' Macci, is a della Robbia saint--one of many such mural works of art in Florence.

Thus, at the corner of the Via Cavour and the Via de' Pucci, opposite the Riccardi palace, is a beautiful Madonna and Child by Donatello.

In the Via Zannetti, which leads out of the Via Cerretani, is a very pretty example by Mino, a few houses on the right.


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