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TO
MY DEAR FRIENDS
MARIA and PIER DESIDERIO PASOLINI
Easter 1895
These essays being mainly the outcome of direct personalimpressions of certain works of art and literature,and of the places in which they were produced, I havebut few acknowledgments to make to the authors ofbooks treating of the same subject. Among the exceptionsto this rule, I must mention foremost ProfessorTocco's Eresia nel Medio Evo, Monsieur Gebhart's ItalieMystique, and Monsieur Paul Sabatier's St. Françoisd'Assise.
I am, on the other hand, very deeply indebted tothe conversation and advice of certain among myfriends, for furnishing me second-hand a little of thatarchæological and critical knowledge which is now-a-daysquite unattainable save by highly trained specialists.My best thanks, therefore, to Miss EugénieSellers, editor of Furtwängler's "Masterpieces of GreekSculpture;" to Mr. Bernhard Berenson, author of"Venetian Painters," and a monograph on LorenzoLotto; and particularly to my friend Mrs. MaryLogan, whose learned catalogue of the Italian paintingsat Hampton Court is sufficient warrant for the correctnessof my art-historical statements, which she hashad the kindness to revise.
Maiano, near Florence,
April 1895.
| THE LOVE OF THE SAINTS |
| THE IMAGINATIVE ART OF THE RENAISSANCE |
| TUSCAN SCULPTURE |
| A SEEKER OF PAGAN PERFECTION |
| VALEDICTORY |
"Panis Angelicus fit panis hominum. O res mirabilis,manducat Dominum Pauper, Servus et Humilis." Thesewords of the Matins of the Most Holy Sacrament Iheard for the first time many years ago, to the beautifuland inappropriate music of Cherubini. They struckme at that time as foolish, barbarous, and almost gross;but since then I have learned to think of them, and ina measure to feel of them, as of something greater andmore solemn than all the music that Cherubini everwrote.
All the hymns of the same date are, indeed, thingsto think