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The Best Years of His Life

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I have heard that you are going back to Padua, and I envy you, since I spent there the best eighteen years of my life. Enjoy this freedom and cultivate the friends you have got both there and in beautiful Venice! [XVIII, 165]

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Greco, P. (2018). The Best Years of His Life. In: Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72032-6_14

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