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“Giotto and Forese da Rabatta“
Panfilo tells us about two physically repulsive dudes: Forese it out on the road. The two unattractive men by now filthy
da Rabatta (a famous jurist) and Master Giotto, the famous and drenched ride along for a while in silence. When Giotto
medieval Italian painter. He describes Forese as “deformed” finally speaks, Forese looks over at him. And then he bursts
and “dwarf-like.” Giotto is about as handsome. Harsh. Both out laughing at the sight of his friend. Forese quips that no
men had homes in the northeast of Florence and one summer, one who saw Giotto in that state would believe he was the
they meet each other as they’re returning back to the city. On greatest painter in the world. Giotto sees the opportunity and
top of their general ugliness, they’re riding horses that look takes it. No stranger, he said, would believe that Forese could
about to keel over. Then it starts to rain. They shelter for a even know his ABCs, let alone be a brilliant legal mind! Forese
while with a peasant friend, but when they realize it won’t hadn’t guessed at his own homely appearance, leaving himself
let up, they borrow some outerwear and decide to tough wide open to insult.
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