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...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
...Molossis, quos appellamus "Bull dogs?" Nostri id faciunt aliquibus temporibus, lugemus dicere. Sed non ita difficile est evadere ex illorum via Probabiliter habetis eandem idioticam systeman examinationum in qua nos gaudemus. Prope viam, quod est vestrum "Parvum Ite" simile ad, et dum estis in statu pupillari, estisne condemnati induere habitum semi-via inter bibum infantis, coloratum nigrum et adfixum tergo, et immundum pannum cujosdam coqui...
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