[261] Cesare Guasti, La Cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore, pp. 34, 35.

[262] See Sculpture, Renaissance and Modern, pp. 63, 64, published by Messrs. Sampson Low and Marston.

[263] Tuscan Sculptors, Vol. I. chap. v. p. 135.

[264] Milanesi's Vasari, Vita di Filippo Brunellesco, vol. ii. p. 362, notes. See also Cesare Guasti, La Cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore, p. 54, document 116.

[265] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, chap. xii. I have taken the facts for this chapter from Merzario's collection of documents, not being able to get at the archives of Milan.

[266] Magister Marcus de Frixono Inzignerius Fabricæ, decessit die supra scripto (10 Julii 1390) circa horam Ave Marie in mane et Corpus ejus sepultum fuit honorifice in Ecc. S. Teglæ ipsi die post prandium.

[267] Is this by chance a French rendering of Giovanni da Campione?

[268] I Maestri Comacini, Vol. I. chap. xii. p. 342.

[269] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. I. chap. xviii. p. 512.

[270] Giulini, Memorie della città e Campagna di Milano, lib. lxxxv. (anno 1452), p. 497.