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No, what you may have been perceiving, or what I was trying to do, is this sort of a cultural expectation.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022

However that may have been, perceiving himself to be badly treated by Riccio, and being a proud and choleric man, he went off to Genoa.

From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Vasari, Giorgio