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Thomas Okey (1852 – 1935) was a British expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.

In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family,

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“And how shall we know the will of God?"
St. Francis answered, "By the token I shall show thee: wherefore I command thee ... thou shalt turn round and round as children do, and shalt not cease turning until I bid thee."
Then Friar Masseo began to turn round and round, and continued so long that by reason of giddiness which is wont to be begotten by such turning , he fell many times to the ground...”
Thomas Okey, The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
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