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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
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Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Pietro Da Cortona

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Lettering: Excelso principi D. Fabricio Columnœ Mag. Reg. Neapol. Comiti. Stabili. Arœ maximœ in Eccl. cleric. regul. S. Pauli de Vrbe, â Philippo, eius abavo, in honorem S. Caroli Boromœi avunculi sui magnificé extructœ, tabulam â Petro Berettino egregié depictam, et nunc â se delineatam, ac œri incisam, in ... obsequij argumentum ceu eiusdem arœ Patrono D.D. Iacob ...

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