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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] from 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 selvedges of manuscripts, almost a reserve of points, caprices 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;) crossed out: virile masculine profiles intended whether as portraits or simply as amusement/entertainment (although ^less improbably the Petrarch likenesses are notoriously created as accompaniments to the manuscripts of his ? here & head perfectly are phase in - there a quantity of little hands, even with supernumerary fingers, of which the disproportionate