Image at left: "Take up and read," from a series of frescos on the life of Augustine, bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) done by Benozzo Gozzoli in San Gimignano (1465)

Text and commentary copyright (c) 1992 James J. O'Donnell. SGML encoding and HTML conversion by Anne Mahoney for the Stoa Consortium, 24 November 1999. Image at left: "Take up and read," from a series of frescos on the life of Augustine, bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) done by Benozzo Gozzoli in San Gimignano (1465)