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He does not give only the mother-love for the child, but the child-love for the mother, which is more divine, and the same feeling is seen in the Madonna of Fra Bartolommeo. This year, 1516, also marks a journey to a hermitage of his order at Lecceto, between Florence and Pisa.
In the carriage, however, she remained insensible to the soft spell of the evening, noticing only the heat and dust, and saying, as they passed under the wooded cliff of Lecceto, that they might as well have stopped there after all, since with such a headache as she felt coming on she didn't care if she dined or not.
She relapsed listlessly against her tree-trunk. "Oh, Siena's hotter than this." "We could go and sit in the cathedral it's always cool there at sunset." "We've sat in the cathedral at sunset every day for a week." "Well, what do you say to stopping at Lecceto on the way? I haven't shown you Lecceto yet; and the drive back by moonlight would be glorious."
Father William Flete was an Englishman, who, passing through Italy in his youth, became fascinated with the land, and spent the rest of his life in a hermit's cell in the Forest of Lecceto. The annals of the time throw some entertaining side- lights on his figure.
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