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Updated: June 10, 2025
It is characteristic of him that though he never forsook her, he refused the Pope's offer of a dispensation from his early vows which would have enabled him to marry her for he hated all ties and bonds alike, and a regular marriage would have seemed to him almost as bad as slavery in Africa. Lippo represented one extreme of character, Beato Angelico the other.
Let Fra Beato ah, pardon, Fra Battista she should have said send some such arrows into men's hides! See them, for the gross-feeding, surly, spend-all, take-all knaves that they were! One or two she might name if she had a mind ah! one or two in this very city of Verona, in this very Street of the Star, who But there! Vanna must go and hear the Frate's next sermon, she must indeed.
It is natural that we should know most about the men who were most different from their companions, such as Michelangelo on the one hand, and Benvenuto Cellini on the other, or Beato Angelico and Lippo Lippi, or the clever Buffalmacco whose practical jokes were told by Boccaccio and Sacchetti, and have even brought him into modern literature and Lionardo da Vinci.
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