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Title: Renaissance Fancies and Studies
Being a Sequel to Euphorion

Author: Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

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Language: English

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RENAISSANCE FANCIES AND STUDIES:

BEING A SEQUEL TO
EUPHORION

BY
VERNON LEE

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1895

[_All rights reserved_]

_Printed by_ BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
_At the Ballantyne Press_

_TO_

_MY DEAR FRIENDS_
_MARIA AND PIER DESIDERIO PASOLINI_

_EASTER 1895_

PREFACE

These essays being mainly the outcome of direct personal impressions of
certain works of art and literature, and of the places in which they
were produced, I have but few acknowledgments to make to the authors of
books treating of the same subject. Among the exceptions to this rule, I
must mention foremost Professor Tocco's _Eresia nel Medio Evo_, Monsieur
Gebhart's _Italie Mystique_, and Monsieur Paul Sabatier's _St. Francois
d'Assise_.

I am, on the other hand, very deeply indebted to the conversation and
advice of certain among my friends, for furnishing me second-hand a
little of that archaeological and critical knowledge which is now-a-days
quite unattainable save by highly trained specialists. My best thanks,
therefore, to Miss Eugenie Sellers, editor of Furtwaengler's "Masterpieces
of Greek Sculpture;" to Mr. Bernhard Berenson, author of "Venetian
Painters," and a monograph on Lorenzo Lotto; and particularly to my
friend Mrs. Mary Logan, whose learned catalogue of the Italian paintings
at Hampton Court is sufficient warrant for the correctness of my
art-historical statements, which she has had the kindness to revise.

MAIANO, NEAR FLORENCE,

_April_ 1895.

CONTENTS
PAGE

PREFACE ix

THE LOVE OF THE SA