Appearance and Manner
Stocky in figure, he had a tall and forceful head and a neat beard (first red and later white). His English and Italian were both equally brusque (John Ward-Perkins recalled a ‘flow of impeccably idiomatic Italian spoken in an accent which to his dying day remained obstinately British’), and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "shy with strangers, blunt with acquaintances, and devoted to his friends".
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