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the epistle says : " ...uce?.

 The judgment shows a somewhat abnormal misoneism? for one who had once associated himself with both Giotto and Martini, Insofar as the identification is concerned, attempted by Chiovenda as unknown Giovanni da Milano who then, however, was then working in Florence, we might as well hypothesize a riminese?). And, lastly, we would still be with Martini if we were to listen to the guess advanced by Chiovenda a propos of the head of a moribund ("a crucifx? a Francesco?" Nothac wonders) which in another marginal note appended to the Plinian passage on Apeth? the poet claims to possess ("qualem [expirantis imaginem] nos hic unam habemus preclarissimi arteficir").
 The miniature of Virgil was obviously executed according to precise instructions from the owner, as must have occurred on other less brilliant occasions.  But in at lease one case Petrarch had to elaborate instructions in behalf of a powerful client, namely, Francesco da