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- Tempesti, Dott. Academical Discourse on the Literary History of Pisa. Pisa, 1787. i. 67.
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- Terzi ... Chronicle of Castel delle Ripe, and of the district of Durante, (now Urbania) written about 1616. See Colucci. 27 tom.
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- —— The same. Notices of Modenese Artists inserted in the Biblioteca Modenese, tom. vi. 7 vols. 4to. Modena, 1781, et seq. They were printed also separately, Modena, 1786, 4to. They are cited in vol. iv. 3, 32, and through the whole school of Modena; oftener in that of Parma and elsewhere.
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- —— The same. Corrections and Additions to Vasari. Inserted in the Sienese edition, from 1791 to 1794, 11 vols. 8vo. Opinion upon them, i. 242. Cited, v. 449, and elsewhere. Not approved, i. 436, ii. 32, iv. 99.
- —— The same. Index of the Artists employed in the Cathedral of Orvieto; extracted from the History of that Cathedral; by the same author. Rome, 1791, 4to. with plates, fol. It is inserted in the second volume of Vasari, Sienese edition. Cited, i. 39, ii. 13, and other parts of Book III.
- —— The same. Discourse recited in Arcadia, the 4th day of March, 1784. It is inserted in the Giornale de' Letterati Pisani, vol. liii. p. 241. i. 175.
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- Vasari. Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Florence, 1550, 2 vols. 8vo. i. 240.
- —— And newly corrected and augmented by the author, with the addition of those living and deceased from the year 1550 to 1567. Florence, 1568, 3 vols. 4to. Subsequent editions. i. 241. Vasari is cited in every book from the last Florentine edition, with notes. History and merit of this work, i. 238. Its author accused of injustice to several artists, i. 7, 17, 219, 246, 249, 373, 409, ii. 34, 69, 90, 115, 375, 381, iii. 2, 30, 98, 100, 104, 161, 192, 204, 244, iv. 79, 83, 156, 163, 262, 270, v. 4, 35, 54, 287, 303, 371. Exculpated in some of the pages cited, and i. 7, 51, 242, 395, ii. 381, iv. 80, v. 35, and elsewhere. Corrected in his nomenclature, or in the epochs, i. 59, 136, 183, 389, 409, 421, ii. 33, 72, 90, 115, 375, 381, iii. 33, 41, 60, 62, 65, 68, 166, 178, 252, iv. 76, 220, 224, 259, v. 14, 30, 46, 64, 296, 299, 314.
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- —— The same. Introduction to the three Arts of Design. It is prefixed to the first volume. i. 224, 237, iv. 56.
- —— The same. Opuscoli. i. 238, 267, 268.
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- —— Lionardo. Treatise on Painting, with the Eulogy of the Ab. Fontani. Florence, 1792, 4to. i. 1, iv. 239.
- —— Another Eulogy of the Dottore Durazzini, in vol. iii. of Illustrious Tuscans. i. 150.
- —— The same. MSS. placed in the Ambrosian Library, and Observations on them by the Ab. Amoretti. iv. 247.
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- —— Gemme del Barone Stochs, 4to. i. 166.
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- —— The same. Directions for the Progress of Youth in Painting. Bologna, 1756, 8vo. v. 237.
- —— The same. Description and Illustration of the Pictures of Pellegrino, Tibaldi, and Niccolo Abbati, in the Institute of Bologna. Venice, 1756, folio, v. 60.
- —— The same. Preface to the Lives of Baruffaldi. MS. v. 282.
- Zuccaro, Cav. Federigo. Idea of Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Turin, 1607, folio. It is found inserted also in the sixth vol. of Lett. Pittor. ii. 102.
- —— The same. Opuscoli, edited in Mantua, 1604, 4to., and in Bologna, 1608, 4to. ib.
- —— The same. Manuscript Annotations on the Lives of Vasari. See Bottari, tom. v. of the foregoing Lives, p. 326. i. 244, ii. 140, 141.
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*** The MSS. cited in the Index of Artists are pointed out in the work, where the names of the correspondents are given, who have favoured me with information respecting native or foreign painters. Others, either professors or connoisseurs, from whom I have received any account, either oral or written, are noticed in the Preface. I have also availed myself of their intelligence in the nomenclature and epochs of artists.