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Rh that if Neri had been granted length of days, and had not died at the age of thirty-six, he would have produced more numerous and better works than did Lorenzo his father. But this Lorenzo, as he was the last of the masters who adhered to the ancient manner of Giotto, so shall his life b e also the closing one of this first part of my work, which, with the aid of the blessed God, I have here brought to a conclusion.