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We therefore desire thee to receive him at our hands in exchange for our good Bishop Gaddo, promising one hundred casks of Lacrima Christi as yearly tribute for the future." "He stands before you," answered the Emir; "take him, an ye can prevail upon him to return with you." The eyes of the envoys wandered hopelessly from one whiskered, turbaned, caftaned, and yataghaned figure to another.
"I will tear thee to pieces with pincers," shouted he to Gaddo. "Your Highness will not be guilty of that black action," responded Gaddo resolutely. "No?" roared the Emir. "No? and what shall hinder me?" "The Lacrima Christi will hinder your Highness," returned the far-seeing Gaddo. "Deems your Highness that Bishop Addo will send another cupful, once he is assured of my death?"
Gaddo Gaddi was a painstaking worker in mosaic, executing some works on a small scale entirely in eggshells of varying tints. In the Baroncelli chapel in Florence is a painting by Taddeo Gaddi, in which occur the portraits of his father, Gaddo Gaddi, and Andrea Tafi. About this time the delightful mosaic at St. Clemente, in Rome, was executed.
"Thou sayest well," rejoined the Emir. "I may not slay thee. But my daughter is manifestly most inflammable, wherefore I will burn her." "Were it not better to circumcise me?" suggested Gaddo.
"Dear son," said the Emir to him one day, "the Lacrima is spent, we thirst, and the tribute of that Christian dog, the Bishop of Amalfi, tarries to arrive. We will presently fit out certain vessels, and thou shalt hold a visitation of thine ancient diocese." "Methinks I see a ship even now," said Gaddo; and he was right.
He based his art rather on Roman than Greek tradition, and his works exhibit less Byzantine formality than many mosaics of the period. On the apse of Sta. Maria Maggiore there appears a signature, "Jacopo Torriti made this work in mosaic." Gaddo Gaddi also added a composition below the vault, about 1308. The well-known mosaic called the Navicella in the atrium of St.
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