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This man with the oversized scissors was a tailor. His customers would bring him cloth, and he'd make them a suit of clothes; but he'd cut off some of the cloth for himself — a habit of hardened sin which sent him straight to Hell with all the other cheats and murderers. Snakes coil round him and bite his face, he has no cloth even to wear on his own body, and always with him, a placard reminding him what he'd done all his life: Lo sartore che ruba lo panno — the tailor who steals cloth. We hope he wasn't a real case, of course: but to the people who prayed in the oratory under the church of S. Francesco in Leonessa, where this fresco is painted, he must have been a good reminder that prayers aren't everything, or even the main thing in a Christian life. |
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With my thanks to Alice Twain whose typesetting and Italian skills filled in the gaps in that inscription. |
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