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Updated: May 10, 2025
And among the dignities who carried their black lucco or furred mantle with an air of habitual authority, there was an abundant sprinkling of men with more contemplative and sensitive faces: scholars inheriting such high names as Strozzi and Acciajoli, who were already minded to take the cowl and join the community of San Marco; artists, wrought to a new and higher ambition by the teaching of Savonarola, like that young painter who had lately surpassed himself in his fresco of the divine child on the wall of the Frate's bare cell unconscious yet that he would one day himself wear the tonsure and the cowl, and be called Fra Bartolommeo.
And then, the third thing, and what he said oftenest, is, that it's all to be in our days: and he marked that off on his thumb, till he made me tremble like the very jelly before me. They had jellies, to be sure, with the arms of the Albizzi and the Acciajoli raised on them in all colours; they've not turned the world quite upside down yet.
For there was the bride looking like a white nun not so much as a pearl about her and the bridegroom as solemn as San Giuseppe. It's true! And to think of two families like the Albizzi and the Acciajoli taking up such notions, when they could afford to wear the best!
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