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Joni, the Sienese painter, restorer and self-professed forger of wooden panel bindings, was in prison in the 1920s, and he tells us he "read a bit and got hold of a pamphlet entitled Dante in Siena by Professor Aquarone" (Affairs of a Painter, 1936, p.277, translated from Le Memorie di un pittore di Quadri Antichi, 1932).