Chapter CLXXXII: Section LXXVI: Third side. Destroyed; but, from the copy, we find
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it has been Stultitia, Folly; and it is there represented simply as a man _riding_, a sculpture worth the consideration of the English residents who bring their horses to Venice. Giotto gives Stultitia a feather, cap, and club. In early manuscripts he is always eating with one hand, and striking with the other; in later ones he has a cap and bells, or cap crested with a cock's head, whence the word "coxcomb."
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Stones of Venice [introductions]Chapter CLXXXII: Section LXXVI: Third side. Destroyed; but, from the copy, we find
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