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SANDRO BOTTICELLI | Pallade e il Centauro | Uffizi, Sala 10-14 | Lingua originale (Francese) |  La narrazione e la voce sono di Sofia Kossiwa Sessou | Leggi la scheda completa dell'opera su uffizi.it   Sandro Botticelli | Pallas and the Centaur | Room 10-14  My feet were swinging over the emptiness from the peak where I was sitting, when I heard a rumble from the other side of the hill. The noise became ever more intense when, out of a cloud of dust, I saw the disconnected gallop of a Centaur. He began to skirt the stone wall, but finding no way out, he stopped. The striking of his hooves marked the passage of time towards something inexorable. He kept his eyes fixed on the horizon, forcing me to do the same. Then I saw her, moving forward slowly, like a cat about to pounce. The wind was creating small silky whirlpools on her clothes. But it was her eyes, pale grey and magnetic, that conveyed her true fascination. Just a few steps from the Centaur, she extended her fingers towards his head, but