Sandrart's story of Caravaggio's death is easily interpreted as an apologue rather than as biography because there is so little ground to confuse moral and factual truths. |
This apologue pleased the Cardinal, though, in fact, it was very superficial. |
I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation. |
Such an apologue is literally no exaggeration of the facts of English history. |
Guynemer had answered, not seeing an apologue in his father's words. |
This is an apologue of misplaced confidence in things earthly. |