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foreign artist out of the way, and to secure 

 the Massacre of the Innocents chapel, at that 

 precise time undertaken, for Gio. Ant. Paracca, 

 who was an Italian. 



Or he may have been sacrificed in order to 

 facilitate the return of the workers in stucco 

 whom he had superseded on the Sacro Monte. 

 He may have been goaded into some impru- 

 dence which was seized upon as a pretext for 

 shutting him up ; at any rate, the fact that 

 when in 1587 he inherited his father's property 

 at Dinant, his trustee (he being expressly stated 

 to be " expatrie ") was " datif" " dativus" ap- 

 pointed not by himself but by the court, lends 

 colour to the statement that he was not his 

 own master at the time; for in later kindred 

 deeds, now at Namur, he appoints his own 

 trustee. I suppose, then, that Tabachetti was 

 shut up in a madhouse at Varallo for a con- 

 siderable time, during which I can find no 

 trace of him, but that eventually he escaped 

 or was released. 



Whether he was a fugitive, or whether he 

 was let out from prison, he would in either 

 case, in all reasonable probability, turn his face 



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