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Minute interpretations have been given for this charming sketch, and discussion has taken place as to whether the chappel is the real one of Saint-Victor or the ideal which the poet would have wished to erect, and whether the grasses and the animals are frankly representational or symbolical. It would be much more important to point out the close mnemonic relationship which suggests the Martini fresco already referred to in Notre-Dames-der-Doms in which the right side is occupied by a rocky cliff surmounted by a tree, and particularly the exquisite and obviously closely related miniature of the same subject containing therefore a putative Laura? in a codex executed for the same Cardinal Stefaneschi, now in the archives of Saint Peter's. Already identified with Martini its author has been declared to be an anonymous individual (eg.the so called Maestro del Codice di San Giorgio), and the page already shows the paging form which is to be found in Petrarch's Pliny, occupying the right lower corner, where the vertical complex of rocks and attendant figures