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did not escape Castelnuovo. An aesthetic continuity, unites Petrarch, acclaimed artist for a day, with the describer of exquisite pleasures and their pragmatic co-ordinator. Continuity of a slightly different nature can be established for the graphic studies done at the hand of Petrarch in the footsteps of the scholar who in addition to beyond the famous vision of the Elicona trans- alpino," has searched the selvages of manuscripts, almost a reserve of points, caries or notes, produced by the same instruments as had fixed the word. Lines symbolic of mountains and rivers (which recall the lost art of the cartographer); sketches of monuments (in the ever-serviceable Pliny, a castel Sant'Angelo which recalls somewhat crudely, the male figures of the codex of San Giorgio; masculine profiles intended whether as portraits simply or as amusement (although the Petrarch likenesses are notoriously created as accompaniments to the manuscripts of his cousin? rest of line unclear there a quantity of little hands, even with supernumerary fingers, of which the disproportionate