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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XIII
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Behind a grille, upstairs, sit the hospital nurses.

In the adjoining cloisters--one of the high roads to the hospital proper--is the ancient statue of old Monna Tessa, Beatrice's nurse, and, in a niche, a pretty symbolical painting of Charity by that curious painter Giovanni di San Giovanni.

It was in the hospital that the famous Van der Goes triptych used to hang.
A tablet on a house opposite S.Egidio, a little to the right, states that it was there that Ghiberti made the Baptistery gates which Michelangelo considered fit to be the portals of Paradise..


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