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Simone di Ciarla, brother of Raphael's own mother, came to look after his little nephew, and ere long carried him off from the noisy, quarrelsome household, and took him to Perugia. 'Thou shalt have the best teaching in all Italy, said Simone as they walked through the streets of the town. 'The great master to whose studio we go, can hold his own even among the artists of Florence.
His mother's name was Magia Ciarla, and she was the daughter of an Urbino merchant. She had three children besides the great painter, all of whom died young, and when Raphael was but eight years old his mother died also. It is said that it was from her Raphael inherited his beauty, goodness, mildness, and genius.
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