excellenti

Updated: May 16, 2025

A man of the world, living in it, and loving it, yet with a heart that it could not spoil nor wean from its allegiance to God 'non meno buon Christiano che excellenti pittore, as Vasari emphatically describes him. His religion breathes of the free air of heaven rather than of the cloister; neither enthusiastic nor superstitious, but practical, manly, and healthy."

W. Cope Devereux - Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo: Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily: with a Short Account of Malta