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from which one gathers that the testator bequeaths to the gentlemen of Padova, Francesco il Vechio da Carrara, as the only possession "worthy of him": tabulam meam sive iconam Beate Virginia Maria etc.... Such a tablet no longer exists to-day but we are accustomed to [over-written: recognize] identify it with the Madonna called "del Petrarca" situated on the altar in the right transept of the Cathedral of Padova. We are accustomed, but not on the part of the specialists, beginning with Moschetti since it is clearly a work of North Italian origin, even if we neglect its relations, direct or indirect (one author believed it to be a product of the 15th century) with a [?] of Santa Justina, which was the object of a controversy among the specialists. There still remains the fact of its Giottism, authoritatively proclaimed (Torsca, 1927: "in its robust modelling, as in the appearance of the baby, it demonstrates its experience of the Giottesque renewal"; [?] 1946: "The oldest & most intelligent Giottesque transposition in Veneto"; Torsca again, 1953: "already one glimpses the presence