Chapter 22 ITALIAN ILLUMINATION

Barbaric character of Italian illumination in the twelfth century-Ravenna and Pavia the earliest centres of revival-The "Exultet"-La Cava and Monte Cassino-The writers of early Italian MSS. not Italians-In the early fourteenth century the art is French-Peculiarities of Italian foliages-The Law Books-Poems of Convenevole da Prato, the tutor of Petra

            
            

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