Fra Lippo Lippi
Picked up at midnight in a Florence back alley by the watch, a Carmelite painter talks his way clear by naming the patron who keeps him and explaining how a boy starved off the streets into a monastery learned to read faces long before he could read Latin. His quarrel with the prior is over whether flesh belongs in a fresco at all, and he makes the case for the visible world as the only thing worth putting on a wall. Browning took the life from Vasari and the argument from his own impatience with a poetry that would rather be soul than body.
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