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groups are both attracted and repulsed by lower social class embodied by the peasant. Although mainstream criticism (e.g., Ulysse) considers Strascino, along with figures like Legacci and Mescolino, to be among the pre-Rozzi, or precursor of the ‘Congrega dei Rozzi,’ established in Siena in 1531, Valenti rejects that label for artists like Campani, Stricca Legacci, or Mescolino. Continue reading They were artists who fused in their comic artistry the mercantile mentality acquired as bell-makers, blacksmiths, candle-makers, and the like