Orlando viene ove s'incurva il monte A guisa d'arco in su la chiara fonte.

Chieder ne vuol: poi tien le labra chete; Chè teme non si far troppo serena, Troppo chiara la cosa, che di nebbia Cerca offuscar, perchè men nuocer debbia.

A pastor mai non daran più, nè a gregge: E quella fonte già si chiara e pura, Da cotanta ira fu poco sicura: Che rami, e ceppi, e tronchi, e sassi, e zolle

But their friendship continued cordial and intimate, and Wieck went into partnership with him in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik; he was a member of the famous Davids-bündler, that mystical brotherhood of art, wherein Clara is alluded to as "Chiara," perhaps also as "Zilia."

As we travel from Padua in the north, where his Arena Chapel sets forth the legend of Mary and the life of Christ in a series of incomparable frescoes, southward to Naples, where he adorned the convent of S. Chiara, we meet with Giotto in almost every city.

Chiara Varotari, under the instruction of her father and her brother, called Padovanino, became a good painter.

The second example is sketched from an altar-piece painted for the suppressed convent of Santa Chiara, at Venice.

e di M. Chiara di Marino nuncupata la Castagnini.'