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| | Joseph Connors, "Virgilio Spada's defence of Borromini," Burlington Magazine, CXXXI, 1989, pp (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In 1652, when the Oratorians came across this proper young man, whose uncle everybody had known, working diligently on their behalf in the office of the Maestri di Strade, he must have seemed far more sympathetic than the truculent genius whom they had been wrestling with for the past fifteen years. |
 | | Spada's notes of 1657 were written to counteract a long-standing prejudice on the part of most Oratorians in favor of Arcucci, the man who had insinuated himself in their service by courtesy, connections and piety, in short, by everything except imagination and art. |
 | | He is to be buried "privatamente, senza pompa alcuna" in the Chiesa Nuova in the tomb of the Oratorian brothers, with 100 masses said as soon as possible, with 4 torches lit in the Chapel of S. Filippo Neri and 20 around his cadaver. |
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