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Written around 1501–3, during the last years of Giovanni Pontano’s life, the humanist dialogue Aegidius belongs to a period marked by an accumulating sense of loss. That process had begun more than a decade earlier with the death of his wife, Adriana Sassone, on 1 March 1490. Permission to construct the Pontano Chapel was grantedContinue reading “Hidden in Plain Sight II. The Pontano Chapel: Aegidius, Memorial and the Later Pontano”