[299] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. II. chap. xxxviii. p. 413.
[300] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. II. chap. xxxvii. p. 415.
[301] Probably the son of Cristoforo di Milano, who worked so much in Venice and Udine. He may have been employed by the Medici in their buildings at Pietrasanta.
[302] "Superstans marmorariis laborantibus, lapides marmoreas pro ecclesia et palatio Sancti Marci presidens fabrice palatii apostolici."—Muntz, Les Arts à la Cour des Papes, vol. i. p. 606. It is interesting to note that the head of the laborerium bore the same title as in A.D. 1250, when Guido da Como wrote on his pulpit, "Superstans Turrisianus."
[303] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. II. chap. xxxviii. p. 424.
[304] Merzario, I Maestri Comacini, Vol. II. chap. xxxvi. p. 359.
[305] "Petrus de Martino Mediolanensis ob triumphalem arcis novæ arcum solerter structum et multa statuariæ artis suo munere hinc œdi oblata, a divo Alphonso rege in equestrem adscribi ordinem et ab ecclesia hoc sepulcro pro se ac posteris suis donari meruit MCCCCLXX."—Merzario, Op. cit. Vol. II. chap. xxxvi. p. 375, note 4.
[306] Milanese State Archives. Documents of the Dukes Sforza.