The Vercelli Book and Exeter Book contain four long narrative poems of saints' lives, or hagiography. |
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Considered one of the most beautiful of all Old English poems is Dream of the Rood, contained in the Vercelli Book. |
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In Vercelli are Andreas and Elene and in Exeter are Guthlac and Juliana. |
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For instance, Vasari wrote of several artists who hailed from a town in northwestern Italy in the region of Piedmont, between Milan and Turin, now known as Vercelli. |
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