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Excerpt from Stories of the Tuscan Artists
IN the course Of these pages we shall more than once have occasion to speak of the Florentine painters as artists Of the Renaissance. What does this mean? The Renaissance in Italy was in a great measure the reawakening in men's minds of a love of beauty, of a desire for knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
