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Title: Florence in poetry, history and art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ryan, Sara Agnes
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Publisher: Chicago, Mayer and Miller Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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uixote of a Sacred Order. And that good Friar, to whom aloneOf mortal men was spirit givenTo pierce the veil that shrouds the ThroneAnd paint the golden Courts of Heaven.—The Earl of Crewe. 137 CHRONOLOGICAL RESUMEOF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Dante, the Chief of the Priori 1300 Dante banished 1302 Petrarch 1304-1374 Orcagna 1308-1368 Boccaccio 1313-1375 Office of Bargello created 1313 Guelf s defeated 1325 Pisano wrought his Baptistery door 1330 Campanile of Giotto 1330 Or San Michele built by Orcagna 1337 Certosa founded 1341 Plague in Florence 1348 Decameron 1348 Or San Michele made into a church 1348 Bigallo Loggia built by Orcagna 1352 Giovanni di Medici born 1360 Ponte Vecchio built by Taddeo Gaddi 1362 Boccaccio lectured on Dante 1368 Loggia dei Lanzi built from Orcagnas de-signs 1376 Salvestro di Medici head of Florence 1378 Ghiberti 1378-1455 Brunelleschi 1379-1446 Donatello 1386-1466 Fra Angelico 1387-1455 San Antonino 1389-1459 Cosimo de Medici, Pater Patriae. .1389-1464 139
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CHAPTER VIII. THE ARTIST MONKS, ANGELICO ANDLIPPO LIPPI. Truly was the coming of the Franciscans andthe Dominicans to Florence in those early daysof momentous importance to art, and truly wasreligious fervor the quickening breath of lifewhich awoke the slumbering visions of beauty. Francis and Dominic were apostles of theRenaissance—the renaissance of spirituality—and Cimabue and Giotto expressed their visionsunder the auspices of the former, while now wefind a simple, sweet, pure Dominican monk sofilled with the beauty of the life beyond, thathe must needs catch some of its radiance, andimprison it upon the walls of his convent cells,showing also thereby the virtues and ideals ofhis chosen Order; but he cares naught forclassic lines, he strives only to express what hissoul contemplates in ecstasy. It was truly an inspired task, and as such didhe regard it; for, beginning his work withprayer and performing it, it is said, on hisknees, he never erased a line, for he consideredthe l

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