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Excerpt from The Romance of Era Filippo Lippi: A New Version of the Love Story of the Friar-Artist, and the Nun Lucrezia
As I write this, the great bell of the Duomo, once the Pieve, is sounding in my ears, and the magnifi cent frescoes of Fra Filippo seem still before my eyes. Across the Piazza I see the house which Filippo bought, and in which the baby Filippino was born.
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