AtD translation: picked up a minor angel

[Mark Kohut]

I don't think so...

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Mark. And sorry for the late reply.
>
> Does it mean a painting depicting a "minor angel" in this particular
> context?
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 7:06 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A 'minor angel' is from Rilke's mythology...
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> P725.20-29   UP HERE IN NORTH ITALY, as in France one might buy ordinary
>>> village wine hoping to find a few cases of overrun from a great vineyard
>>> nearby, Vibe’s theory was to buy all the school-of-Squarciones he could
>>> put
>>> his hands on in the hopes that someplace in there might be an
>>> unattributed
>>> Mantegna somebody had overlooked. It was the current fashion to
>>> disrespect
>>> the painting skills of the famed Paduan collector and impresario himself,
>>> so any actual Squarciones kicking around, including embroideries and
>>> tapestries (for he had begun his working life as a tailor), would be
>>> going
>>> for a song. In fact, Scarsdale had already picked up a minor angel just
>>> by
>>> singing “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away” to a sacristan who might
>>> have been insane.
>>>
>>> What does "a minor angel" refer to here exactly?
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>>