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Two Davids

From the January 2011 Print Edition

Michelangelo’s David is too smooth and fair and too Italian”too much like a boy who’d stand with a mandolin beneath a stair and serenade his girl; who would enjoy good wine and food and music and would dress in fashion, go disguised to carnival, study Castiglione and play chess, . . . . Continue Reading »