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...VISCONTI HOURS Edited by Millard Meiss and Edith Kirsch. 262 pages. Braziller. $35. This facsimile reproduction of the Visconti Book of Hours was originally commissioned sometime before 1385 by the puissant Count, later Duke of Milan, Giangaleazzo Visconti. The first part ended with Giangaleazzo's death in 1402. Some ten years later the book was resumed when his son became duke. For one reason or another, the two volumes were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more...
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