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For everywhere in these soft melodies of luscious beauty, even in the studied sketches of primitive innocence itself, there is an undercurrent of tender melancholy and pathos: Il mondo invecchia E invecchiando intristisce. I have said that a sense of the contrast between town and country was essential to the development of a distinctively pastoral literature.
The Northern traveller, standing beneath his master-works in Parma, may hear from each of those radiant and laughing faces what the young Italian said to Goethe: Perchè pensa? pensando s' invecchia. Michael Angelo is the prophet or seer of the Renaissance.
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