Vulgar words in A Wanderer in Florence (Page 1)
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The hall represents Florence; the judge (with the ears of an ass) the Signoria and the Pope.
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CHAPTER XXIII The Pitti Luca Pitti's pride--Preliminary caution--A terrace view--A collection but not a gallery--The personally-conducted--Giorgione the superb--Sustermans--The "Madonna del Granduca"--The "Madonna della Sedia"--From Cimabue to Raphael--Andrea del Sarto--Two Popes and a bastard--The ill-fated Ippolito--The National Gallery--Royal apartments--"Pallas Subduing the Centaur"--The Boboli Gardens.
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Himself a bastard, Giulio became the father of the base-born Alessandro of Urbino, first Duke of Florence, who, after procuring the death of Ippolito and living a life of horrible excess, was himself murdered by his cousin Lorenzino in order to rid Florence of her worst tyrant.