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PAOLO SANTINI (after Taccola) - A knight leaving a besieged fortress at night-time with his horse shod backwards. The hoofprints confuse the enemy, who think that reinforcements have arrived


De machinis, Ms. Lat. 7239 (BNP), c. 10r

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