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followed by a set of letters read by Ruskin in Notebook M2 p.91 and Works, 10.406 as ‘e la fia’ for ‘e la figlia’, and A RE (presumably with the meaning ‘to the king’. Compare the painting by Bellini of the ‘Continence of Scipio’, 1505, now in the National Gallery of Art Washington. Scipio Africanus,from whom the Cornardo family claimed descent; returned a captive woman to her fiance, and so proved his continence or, in the vernacular, ‘chastitia’. Compare Notebook M2 p.91.
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