Excerpt from The Romance of Sandro Botticelli Woven From His Paintings The scientific history of Botticelli has been com piled, once and for all, by Mr. Herbert Horne and, save for the doubtful suggestion, Too little mind ful of the outward forms and Observances of religion, too deeply enamoured of the old pagan world of the senses, Botticelli may well have been, during no small part of his life, little light has been thrown on Sandro's personality. But here fiction may step in, and, by following the methods of the modern detective who reconstructs the scene of a crime, the writer may reconstruct the atmosphere in which Sandro moved and the persons who must have influenced him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.