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"Craftsman" loses the alliterative connection with "art," but it comes nearest to expressing Vasari's idea of the "artefice" as a practical workman (_cf. _ his remark about Ambrogio Lorenzetti: "The ways of Ambrogio were rather those of a 'gentiluomo' than of an
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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Of the "gentiluomo Veneto," the name is still known, and that is all.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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-- to slip instead, a tradesman not a _gentiluomo, _ through a victualer's door and back into the Piazza.
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