His doctor had recommended him to take the cure at Montecatini, a watering-place in the north of Italy, and after this he proposed to go to Venice to look for a font of a design suitable to his Romanesque church.

他的医生建议他在意大利北部的一个水源地蒙特卡蒂尼 (Montecatini) 接受治疗，此后他提议去威尼斯寻找一种设计适合他的罗马式教堂的字体。