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And at last, as an appropriate ending to such a storm, Domencio Thorner's Se solitaria preghi la sera that perfect echo of the heart's most importunate feeling, and its fluctuatons, when plangent passion sinks its voice like the sea, rocking itself to rest, and nearly finds forgetful calm; until suddenly the old pain revives the pain that cannot keep silence, the hunger of the heart, the everlasting sorrow and swells again in great and greater waves of melody.
John raises Drusiana from the grave, or St. Philip drives out the Dragon of Hierapolis; while above St. John is martyred, and St. Philip too. But it is in the choir behind the high altar, where for so long the scaffolding has prevented our sight, that we come upon the simple serious work of Domencio Ghirlandajo, whom all the critics have scorned.
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