Chapter 17 No.17

(Viviani, many years later, writes to a friend in England)

I was his last disciple, as you say

I went to him, at seventeen years of age,

And offered him my hands and eyes to use,

When, voicing the true mind and heart of Rome,

Father Castelli, his most faithful friend,

Wrote, for my master, that compassionate plea;

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