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Of the four existing monuments of the Cloister of S. Augustine, as we said in the Table LXI, this is the third dedicated to the memory of the learned Cardinal Jacopo Ammannati, distinguished patron of the arts and sciences, and he himself not the…

The Cardinal Lorenzo Cibo, Genoese patrician and a descendant of the noble family who willed original heraldic writers of Greece, is remembered by biographers as very learned man and angelic costumes. Taken from a special devotion to S. Lorenzo was…

As we did with the other two first volumes, although this is (chuide icnografica) with a table containing the plants in half the DEA reports of all the monuments of that composed this third volume. We placed our every care to ensure that in such…

Of these two monuments, one on the right remembers the name of a famous carver in marble, Andrea Bregno, author of the beautiful altar for us reproduced in Table LVI of this volume. From (scolpitavi) epigraph above we can argue what account it was…

Of the three monuments etched in this table, the first contains the mortal remains of Salvo Cassetta, who died in 1483 aged 70 . He was inquisitive, Master of the Sacred Palace and general of his order. Sixtus IV sent as ambassador to Germany for…

The year 1504 went up and this monument to the memory of learned and upright magistrate Pietro da Vicenza, for care of the 'grieving sister Margaret. This man is remembered with praise worthy in the works of many writers (contemporanci) him, insomuch…

There are three monuments. The first is a memory burial Alberto Strozzi Mantua, who died in 1553, operates all of white marble, simple but beautiful in its proportions and with the portrait of the deceased in a bust in full relief. The last Butigella…

This work of sculpture certainly belongs to the good of the century 'art, wanting to argue it from its simple style and correct. We saw the Rasponi and Crescimbeni cited by Valentini (Illus. the four Bas.) But we could not find the author's name. A…

Otto Colonna was born in Rome in 1368, and the 11 of November 1417 at the Council of Constance was elected as Pope Martin V, after the voluntary renunciation of the papacy of Gregory XII, and after the said council had deposed John XXIII and the…