slumber on her bosom. Many fables have been told of her bed and
dwelling-places. But I have not believed the lies of the ignorant crowd.
So it is, she cometh to me as a mistress to her lover, her brow
garlanded with flowers and her lips smiling."

He broke off with these words, and fell dead over the ancient tomb. His
body was buried without any great pomp in the Cloister of Santa Maria
Novella.




LUCIFER

TO LOUIS GANDERAX




LUCIFER

_E si compiacque tanto Spinello di farlo orribile e contrafatto, che
si dice (tanto può alcuna fiata l'immaginazione) che la detta figura
da lui dipinta gli apparve in sogno, domandandolo dove egli l' avesse
veduta si brutta._[1]

(_Vite de' piu eccellenti pittori_, da Messer Giorgio Vasari.--"Vita
di Spinello.")

[Footnote 1: "And so successful was Spinello with his horrible and