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An ageing counsellor and a public monument The exterior of the Pontano Chapel carries twelve sententiae concerned with government, public conduct and the formation of character. Before examining the tablets individually, this series will first consider the political circumstances in which they were created and then the Renaissance culture of epigraphy within which they wereContinue reading “Hidden in Plain Sight III. The Pontano Chapel: Public Counsel and the Written Monument”