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Murray’s Guide of 1847 (Murray (1847b) p.176) praises the tomb of St Peter Martyr in the Church of St Eustorgio, Milan, as an ‘exceedingly beautiful specimen of Tuscan Art’, ‘pure Gothic architecture to the greatest elegance of design’, with a general plan ‘like that of the shrine of the Confessor in Westminster Abbey’. There are ‘fine statutes full of grace and simplicity’. ‘More interesting to the stranger because more novel are the allegorical representations of the virtues’.
However a major thrust of the entry is the opportunity it provides for an anti-Catholic gibe in its comments on St. Peter Martyr:
Failing to convince his opponents by his arguments and miracles that the religion he professed was the true Apostolic faith he had recourse to torture and executions to refute and exterminate those who differed from him in opinion... The church of Rome in admiration of his principles and practices canonised him only twelve years after his death.
There is no trace of such an anti-Catholic agenda in Ruskin’s notes in M, either at Notebook M p.19 on St. Eustorgio or elsewhere.
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