[152] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. I. chap. viii. p. 243.
[153] Difendente Sacchi, L'arca di S. Agostina illustrata, etc.
[154] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. I. chap. viii. p. 248.
[155] V. Vairina, I Scriptiones Cremonenses Universæ, p. 14, N. 53.
[156] Thomas Hope, Historical Essay on Architecture, chap. xxi.
[157] In the older papers and deeds of Lombard times these were classically called colligantes or fratres; in the later ones they were Italianized as fratelli or brethren.
[158] See Tuscan Studies, by Leader Scott, pp. 18, 19.
[159] Some very early Latin authors write the name Bruschettus.
[160] These two lines, which are partly effaced, have been said to read originally thus—"Busketus iacet hic qui motibus ingeniorum Dulichio fertur prevaluisse Duci."
[161] Dædalus was called by the ancients the Father of architecture and statuary. He was also the inventor of many mechanical appliances. In short a good prototype of a Comacine Magister.