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Title: The Florence of Landor
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the sake of laughing at them. Theywere books of magic and occult sciences. Whathe seemed really to value, however, were somemanuscript copies of Dante, of which he showedus two: one a folio or parchment beautifullywritten in German text, the letters as clear andaccurately cut as printed type; the other a smallvolume, fit, as Mr. Kirkup said, to be carried ina capacious mediaeval sleeve. This also was onvellum and as elegantly executed as the largerone ; but the larger had beautiful illuminations,the vermilion and gold of which looked asbrilliant now as they did five centuries ago. Both of these books were written early in thefourteenth century. Mr. Kirkup has also aplaster cast of Dantes face, which he believes tobe the original and taken fi*om his face afterdeath; and he has likewise his own accuratetracing fi:om Giottos fresco of Dante in theChapel of the Borgello. This fiesco was dis-covered through Mr. Kirkups means, and thetracing is particularly valuable. . . . It represents no
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DANTE ALIGHIERI. From the Portrait discovered in the Frescoes by Giotto, in the Bargello, Florence. THE DEW OF PARNASSUS the profile of a youthful but melancholy face,and has the general outline of Dantes featuresin other portraits. Dante has held frequent communications withMr. Kirkup through a medium, the poet beingdescribed by a medium as wearing the samedress seen in the youthful portrait, but as bear-ing more resemblance to the cast taken from thedead face than to the picture from his youthfulone. * There was a very good picture of Savonarolain one of the rooms, and many other portraits,paintings, and drawings, some of them ancient,and some of them the work of Mr. Kirkup him-self. He has the torn fragment of an exquisitedrawing of a nude figure by Rubens, and aportfolio of other curious drawings. Hawthorne and Mr. Landor never met. Toaccurately determine the matter the writer ofthis volume wrote to Mr. Julian Hawthorne,asking the question, to which he courteouslyreplied: — ...

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