"Power is given to the Grand Duke to dispense seven Coronas to as many persons, from time to time for ever, warning them that they must ask them in the name of God and through the merits of His most sacred Passion; and these should be delivered gratis."
[From a contemporary copy in Bibl. Cassinatensis, x. iv. 39, p. 369.]
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MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS OF THE DUCAL FAMILY OF URBINO.
WE have here collected the various inscriptions in memory of the sovereigns of Urbino and their consorts, so far as these have come to our knowledge. Several are taken from Giunta, Abozzamento della Città di Urbino, a MS. in the Albani Library at Rome; or from Lazzari, Dizionario dei Pittori di Urbino, where not unfrequent errors occur: others from the originals.
I. Count Guidantonio.
On a pavement tombstone in the old church of S. Donato, close to the Zoccolantine Monastery near Urbino, is a sculptured effigy in the Franciscan habit, with the following doggerel, in some parts illegible:—
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"Ploret in Hesperia tellus! plorate Latini! Guido Comes, moriens hoc requiescit humo. Non fuit a cœlo princeps clementior alter; Prævalidas urbes rexit et ipse potens. Non fuit in terris unquam qui sanctior heros Cappam Francisci posset habere sacri; Quem dabit eternis probitas venerabilis ævo Mors animam cœlo reddidit alma suo. Vos igitur superi socio gaudete superno, Et Divum servet curia sacra Ducem: Mille quadringentis domini currentibus annis Quadraginta tribus, Februarii vigesima prima." |