Word: bargello
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...later passage, Hoving confesses to contemplating theft. Visiting Florence's Bargello, a sculpture museum, he spies an ivory plaque with the same distinctive workmanship as the cross. Knowing he must feel the ivory piece in his hands to examine it, and reluctant to petition for permission, he slickly unscrews the case in the absence of the guard. "For an instant," he concedes, "I even thought the unthinkable...