"Oh, if I were only a prince!" said the stone-cutter to himself, as the carriage vanished round the corner.

“噢，如果我是一位王子该多好啊！”马车消失在街角时，切石匠喃喃自语。

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Once upon a time there lived a stone-cutter who went every day to a great rock in the side of a big mountain and cut out slabs for gravestones or for houses.

从前有一位切石匠，他每天都会来到一座大山旁边的巨石前，切割下一块块的石板用以制作石碑或建造房屋。

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One morning the heat was so great that the stone-cutter could scarcely breathe, and he determined he would stay at home till the evening.

一天早晨，气温极高，切石匠快透不过气来了，于是决定在家一直呆到傍晚。

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An exhibition at Lugano traced the development of his early career from his initial apprenticeship as a stone-cutter with the builders of the Duomo in Milan to his first important commission in Rome: the church and monastery of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, located at the crossroads of the Four Fountains in today's Via Quirinale.

ECONOMIST: Italian Baroque