Crossword-Solution: MOSCHINO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

With what an air he added: 'E gia il moschino e conte'--Already the gnat is a count.' The gnat was himself.

With what an air he added: ‘E gia il moschino e conte’--Already the gnat is a count.’ The gnat was himself.

Simone Cioli, called Il Mosca, was a very fair sculptor who died in 1554, leaving a son, Francesco, called Il Moschino, who was also a sculptor, and had reached the age of thirty at this epoch.

All this was the reason that, when the chapel was finished, Simone was commissioned by the Wardens of Works of the Duomo to make another similar to it, on the other side, to the end that the space of the Chapel of the High-Altar might be suitably set off, on the understanding that the figures should be varied without varying the architecture, and that in the centre there should be the Visitation of Our Lady, which was allotted to the above-named Moschino.

Whereupon his Excellency, having accepted and much commended it, did not disappoint the desire of Moschino, even as he has never disappointed anyone who has sought to work valiantly in any calling.