Word: terranuova
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bust further identified the piece as a work commissioned by the great Italian Humanist Poggio Bracciolini and his wife Vaggia. A search of the records brought out the fact that about 1438 Poggio had indeed given to the Church of Santa Maria in his native village of Terranuova, south of Florence, a reliquary for the bones of St. Lawrence, one of Rome's most popular saints (who refused to surrender the church's treasures and in 258 was supposed to have been roasted to death on a gridiron...
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