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Wanted to buy a most interesting missal, quite unique in its way, offered me by Menotti and Cicolari, dirt cheap, for three thousand guineas. It's quite a gem of late miniaturist art vellum folio, with borders and head-pieces by Giulio Clovio. A marvellous bargain! 'Giulio Clovio, said Lord Exmoor, doubtfully. 'Who was he? Never heard of him in my life before.
It's very existence wasn't suspected till Cicolari wonderfully smart fellow, Cicolari unearthed it the other day from a descendant of the Malatestas, in a little village in the Campagna. He offered it to me, quite as an act of friendship, for three thousand guineas; indeed, he begged me not to let Menotti know how cheap he was selling it. for fear he might interfere and ask a higher price for it.
Wonderful draughtsman in the nude, and fine colourist; took hints from Raphael and Michael Angelo. So much he had picked up from Menotti and Cicolari, and, being a distinguished connoisseur, had made a mental note of the facts at once, for future reproduction upon a fitting occasion.
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