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Rh resentment in any other manner, he left Venice immediately, and returned to Padua, where he lived very honourably during the remainder of his life, contenting himself with the works that he had already completed, and with the conviction of being, as he ever was, beloved and respected in his native land. He died at the age of ninety-two, and was buried in the Santo with that distinction which his talents, having done honour to his country as well as himself, had merited. His portrait was sent to me from Padua, by certain friends of mine, who received it, as they inform me, from the most learned and very reverend Cardinal Bembo, a most zealous admirer of the fine arts, as well as highly distinguished for his rich endowments of mind and body, wherein, and for the rarest virtues and talents, he was indeed excellent above all the men of our age.

Carmelite monk. Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, was born at Florence in a bye street called Ardiglione, under