1936

“[…] so it came about that my uncle [Mancini] got together a collection of drawings – interiors and exteriors of churches, ink sketches, Venetian views – and took them down to Rome, where they caused a degree of astonishment as no-one could believe them to be the work of a fifteen-year-old boy […]”*

* Emilio Vedova, Pagine di diario, Galleria Blu Editrice, Milan, 1961