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 | | Among them was Antonio da Correggio, a most remarkable painter, who adopted the modern style perfectly, and being endowed with a rare genius, of great natural ability and well trained in art, he became in a few years a sublime and marvellous artist. |
 | | In S. Antonio in the same city he did a picture of the Virgin and St. Mary Magdalene with a laughing child near, like a little angel, holding a book in his hand.3 It is so natural that no one who sees it can refrain from smiling, and a melancholy person is made happy. |
 | | Antonio was anxious to save, like everyone who is burdened with a family, and he thus became excessively miserly. |
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