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from The Mantegna Tarocchi, c. 1465

An old woman in a hooded cloak holding a file or rasp in one hand and a small vessel in the other, standing in profile against a bare ground. Grammar is the first of the seven liberal arts, and the third group of ten, lettered C, gives the seven arts plus Poetry, Philosophy and Theology. The file is usually explained as the tool that smooths rough speech.

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