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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER VII
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For the rest, Ghiberti's S.Stephen, and Ghiberti and Michelozzo's S.Matthew, on the entrance wall, are the most remarkable.

The blacksmith relief is very lively and the blacksmith's saint a noble figure.
The little square reliefs let into the wall at intervals are often charming, and the stone-work of the windows is very lovely.

In fact, the four walls of this fortress church are almost inexhaustible.

Within, its vaulted roof is so noble, its proportions so satisfying.

One should often sit quietly here, in the gloom, and do nothing.
The little building just across the way was the Guild House of the Arte della Lana, or Wool-combers, and is now the head-quarters of the Italian Dante Society, who hold a conference every Thursday in the large room over Or San Michele, gained by the flying buttress-bridge.


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