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These frail masterpieces of Florentine art the first beginnings of line engraving we held in our hands while Signor Folcioni read out Cicognara's commentary in a slow impressive voice, breaking off now and then to point at the originals before us. The sun had set, and the room was almost dark, when he laid his book down, and said: 'I have not much left to show yet stay!
It was here that I gained the acquaintance of Signor Folcioni, and became possessor of an object that has made the memory of Crema doubly interesting to me ever since.
These thoughts passed through my mind, while Signor Folcioni quietly remarked: 'I bought this Cross from the Frati when their convent was dissolved in Crema. Then he bade me turn it round, and showed a little steel knob fixed into the back between the arms. This was a spring.
'I have often wondered, said Signor Folcioni, 'that the Frati cared to sell me this.
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