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Florence
side of the Duomo is a store for stamped leather goods especially in binding and boxes. Very interesting They gave the Freemans 10%s [?] discount. I enjoyed tremendously the Uffizi Gallery. And the Pitti came the next day. Of all galleries I want most to go back to the Pitti. So many many things that one has seen in prints all his life are there. I marked many of them in Baedeker. I referred to my guide so many times in the streets that Miss Brown (a sister of Everett Brown, traveling with her cousing Miss Moller
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March 4, 1906.
called it the Sibylline Book. In front of the Uffizi is a court -- a rectangle open to the sky with the famous men of Florence represented by a series of statues on three sides of it: Dante, Galileo, Savanorola, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Miche Angelo, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Gluberti, Donatello, Benvenuto Cellini, Caesalpino and Micheli, the latter two botanists, Amerigo Vespucci, Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino. -- a sort of hall of fame. We had a celebration one evening -- the Freemans invited the Berkeley people to an
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