The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
Dying in a Renaissance church, a bishop gathers the young men he calls his nephews round the bed and specifies the niche, the basalt slab, the nine columns and above all the lump of lapis lazuli he hid during a fire, because the rival buried opposite got nothing better than gritstone. His Latin slips, his mistress and his sons surface in the same breath as the Resurrection, and the peace he wants out of the marble is indistinguishable from the envy that chose it. Ruskin held that these hundred-odd lines said more about the spirit of the Italian Renaissance than anything he had managed himself.
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