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Although this sheet is titled ‘Details of Greater Scala Monument’ Ruskin does not use the description in The Stones of Venice. He does however refer to the tomb of Can Signorio as ‘The most splendid of the tombs’ at Works, 19.439 [n/a]. This Sheet appears to be related to more than one of the tombs for at Notebook M p.26 and Notebook M p.27 it is headed ‘Verona Scala Monuments’. The three tombs are Can Grande (d.1329), Mastino ll (d. 1351) and Can Signorio (d. 1375). Works, 9.278, Works, 14.351 [n/a] Ruskin’s 1869 visit to Verona to study again the Scala tombs, Works, 16.393 [n/a] ‘trellis work enclosing Scala tombs’
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