The Italian Guest's Selection.
| "He is a Tuscan born, of an old |
| noble race in that part of Italy." |
| Hawthorne. |
A PICTURE OF THE NATIVITY BY FRA FILIPPO LIPPI
as explained by a pious florentine gossip of his day.
"Now, I cannot affirm that things did really take place in this manner, but it greatly pleases me to think that they did."—Fra Domenico Cavalca: Life of the Magdalen.