[*119] Cf. Budinich, Il Palazzo Ducale di Urbino (Trieste, 1904). Rich in documents and designs.

[120] Gaye, Carteggio d'Artisti, I., p. 214, and Pungileone, Elogio di Bramante, 63. The original is in Latin.

[121] Carteggio, I., pp. 274-6. The author has discussed the point in No. 86 of the Kunstblatt for 1836.

[122] "Federicus Urbini Dux, Montisferetri ac Durantis Comes, sanctæ Ro. ecclesiæ Confalonerius, atque Italici Confederationis Imperator, hanc domum a fundamentis erectam, gloriæ et posteritati suæ exædificavit: Qui bello pluries depugnavit, sexies signa contulit, octies hostem profligavit, omniumque preliorum victor ditionem auxit. Ejusdem justitia, clementia, liberalitas, et religio pace victorias equarunt, ornaruntque."

[123] Pungileone has found a payment of 7 florins, in 1473, to Maestro Giacomo, from Florence, on account of intarsia for the audience-hall, which seems, from other entries there cited, to have been decorated during 1464 with paintings now lost. Elogio di G. Santi, p. 47.

[124]

"Sint tibi divitiæ; sint aurea vasa, talenta
Plurima, servorum turbæ, gemmæque nitentes;
Sint vestes variæ, pretiosa monilia, torques;
Id totum hæc longe superat præclara supellex.
Sint licet aurati niveo de marmore postes,
Et variis placeant penetralia picta figuris;
Sint quoque Trojanis circumdata mœnia pannis,
Et miro fragrent viridaria culta decore.
Extra intusque domus regali fulgida luxu,
Res equidem mutæ; sed Bibliotheca parata est,
Jussa loqui, facunda nimis, vel jussa tacere,
Et prodesse potens, et delectare legentem.
Tempora lapsa docet, venturaque plurima pandit,
Explicat et cunctos cœli terræque labores."

[125] Commentary on Duke Federigo, Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 941, f. 43. See his Life of Nicholas V.; Muratori, Script., XXV., 268, 274; also below, ch. XXIV.

[126] The Urbino Bible, noticed again in this extract, will be more particularly described in [VI. of the Appendices].

[*127] On the "veltro" Dante, see Dennistoun's note in the [Appendix] to this vol., [p. 448], and L. Frati, Federico Duca d'Urbino e il "Veltro" Dante, in Arch. St. per le Marche e per l'Umbria, vol. II., pp. 360-67. Cf. also Vespasiano, Vite (Barbera, Firenze), p. 86.