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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XV
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The della Robbia reliefs, once one can forgive them for being here, are worth study.

Nothing could be more charming (or less conducive to a methodical literary morning) than the angel who holds S.Matthew's ink-pot.

But I think my favourite of all is the pensive apostle who leans his cheek on his hand and his elbow on his book.

This figure alone proves what a sculptor Luca was, apart altogether from the charm of his mind and the fascination of his chosen medium.
This chapel was once the scene of a gruesome ceremony.

Old Jacopo Pazzi, the head of the family at the time of the Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici, after being hanged from a window of the Palazzo Vecchio, was buried here.


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