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Excerpt from Boys Who Became Famous Men: Stories of the Childhood of Poets, Artists, and Musicians The sun shone hot, and when Giotto was satisfied that his sheep were all about him, cropping the mosses, he threw him self down in the shade of an ilex-tree, and wiped his forehead on the sleeve Of his tunic. 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.