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is mArveIousiy human bit of marble. His "Aneel With th9 Book of Life" was deciared 10 De one of the finest pieces Of statuary at the Paris expo sition. It was first prise there. These are but few Of the honors that have associate and friend of Hunt, of Rem l inKton; this D0yhO0d. friend and play ! mate of Caruso, the great Italian tener. r;iuSsf,ni NoretA has found the mar ble that delights the soul of the great artist. He has framed the ideal en- vironment. He is ready to resume his life work.
 fsterestisg Career of MorettI. This man Giuseppi Moretti was born an artist His life story Is one of unyieldins adherence to purpose. It Is a story of inspiration. He is native of siena that portion of Italy which has given to the world so many reniuses, the Tuscany in which much of the art and the culture of the world Is centralized in its foremost city of Florence. He was to have been priest, this Giuseppi Moretti The re- fex glory of his great uncle, the dis tineuished Cardinal Moretti, famed as a patron of art and a connoisseur. had shed itself upon the Moretti family name. And so the little Tuscan boy was to be priest. Some day he was to be Cardinal and mayhap. take his place in the great vaticcn of Rome.
 But the little Tuscan boy d canned oth- erwise. In his earliest recollections he was moulding figures and studying nature. The sienese village of his
 birth was too narrow for his ambition and at 12 years of age he had made the journey to Florence, that Florence which was in after years to applaud the genius of Gluseppi Moretti as 1t had iavished praise upon his master, Giovanni Dupre, a master whose name is revered and whose work is still held in the highest esteem not only in the Pitt Palace of Florence, but in the galleries and salons of all Europe. When Giuseppi Moretti went to Flor encc to pursue his study of the Greek
 art, Giovanni Dupre was in his prime. Italy was lauding him as the modern master of scuipturing. He had done Abel and Cain." famous figures which are now conspicuous in the Pitti Pal ace of Florence. His -Sappho'' and his | "Giotto" had been pronounced to be masterpieces. More to the purpose of | the populace, Dupre, who was himself Tuscan, had won renown with his | marvelous1y life-like figure of Eng ! lands Iron Duke. Arthur Wellington. I the soldier genius who sent the wizard Napoleon to oblivion and to death. | This massive figure of Wellington. | this great Wellington monument, one l of London's enduring show places, was evolved from tho brain of Morettfs master, Giovanni Dupre.
 e The Florentine master, Dupre, was | himself born in Siena, and he became much attached to the young Moretti, with the studious mind and ambitious heart, The friendship between the two. master and pupil. continued until the | death of Dupre, in 1882. A few years | thereafter MT. Moretti came to Ameri- ca. At his door here at Chinnabee Lodge he has placed daily reminder | of his dear, dead friend. On either side | of the entrance to the villa are du- | plicate figures in bronze of Mary and | the Child. They are exquisitely turn | ed and it does not need the cultured l eye of an artist to tell that they were I patterned by no ordinary hand. They were made by Giovanni Dupre, the I Florentine master. and were by him | given to his friend and pupil, Gluseppi MorettL
 l Disappointment In Hungary. =. Several years MT. Moretti maintained | a studio in Buda Pesth. where his work l attracted the interest of the Emperor. | Francis Joseph, who sat for him. Three busts of Francis Joseph done
 by Mir Moretti are in the galleries of | the Emperor and autograph letters from Francis Joseph to the sculptor | testify to his esteem of the work.
 trick on Giuseppi Moretti. It was
 through the vagaries of the Hungarian
 government and this emperor. Francis
 Joseph that Giuseppi Moretti be- 1 came a self-imposed exile and after
 seventeen years of fatuous wandering.