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Lionardo da Vinci's epitaph by Platino Piatto. Into the holy enclosure which had received the precious shiploads of earth from Calvary, the Pisans of the thirteenth century carried the fragments of ancient sculpture brought from Rome and from Greece; and in the Gothic cloister enclosing the green sward and dark cypresses of the graveyard of Pisa, the art of the Middle Ages came for the first time face to face with the art of Antiquity.
"True tolerance should tolerate even intolerance," observed Orsino smartly. "That sounds like one of the puzzles of pronunciation like 'in un piatto poco cupo poco pepe pisto cape," laughed Maria Consuelo. "Tolerably tolerable tolerance tolerates tolerable tolerance intolerably " "You speak Italian?" asked Orsino, surprised by her glib enunciation of the difficult sentence she had quoted.
Stor. xv. pt. ii. p. 215. Here is a graphic touch in Varchi's History, vol. iii. p. 202. Guicciardini is discussing the appointment of Cosimo de' Medici: 'Gli dovessero esser pagati per suo piatto ogn' anno 12,000 fiorini d' oro, e non più, avendo il Guicciardino, abbassando il viso e alzando gli occhi, detto: "Un 12,000 fiorini d' oro è un bello spendere."
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