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That would explain why Colonna identified himself in the secret acrostic as “Fra”: the title Brother, n restored; riddled foundations are strong again; columns and capitals, once shattered, now find themselves repaired. But when our people lived in the south, they were not strong, and others droveus out of those good lands. Colonna knew what he was talking about.

So, on which shore should the ships be built? When, as was his custom, Bering consultedwith his subordinates, two clear opinions quickly emerged. But the metropolitan, eager to know thata successor had been selected but not eager to have the man appear in St. Paul discovered the work of Italian scholars, whose texts he was able to wade through thanks to four years of Latin. “Come this way,” Curry says to us, returning to a wall of paintings close to where we found him.