[73] Niccola Pisano (circa 1206-1278), one of the greatest Italian architects.—T.
[74] And not Signor Procurante, as the earlier editions of the Memoirs have it.—T.
[75] Voltaire: Candide, ou l'Optimisme, Part I., Chap. XXV.: Candid and Martin pay a Visit to Seignor Pococurante, a Noble Venetian.—T.
[76] Philippe de Comines (circa 1445-1511), the statesman and historian, author of the valuable Cronique et hystoire faicte et composée par messire Philippe de Comines.—T.
[77] Jacopo Sannazaro.—Author's Note.
[78] Gabriello Chiabrera, Canzoni eroiche, III.: Per Vittorio Cappello, Generale de' Veneziani nella Morea, 10-12.—T.
[79] Pierre Luc Charles Cicéri (1782-1868), a famous French scene-painter, who executed numbers of stage-scenes for the Royal Academy of Music, or grand Opera-house, in Paris.—B.
[80] Giorgio Barbarelli (circa 1477-1511), known as Giorgione, the great Venetian colourist and pupil of Giovanni Bellini (vide infra.)—T.
[81] Paolo Cagliari (1528-1588), of Verona, known as Paul Veronese, one of the most celebrated painters of the Venetian School, went to Venice in 1555 and remained there. He executed the decorations of the Library of St. Mark in 1563 and the ceiling of the council-chamber in the Palace of the Doges in 1577.—T.
[82] Jacopo Robusti (1518-1594), called Tintoretto from the trade of his father, a dyer, received his first important order in 1546, for the decoration of Santa Maria dell' Orto. In 1560, he began to paint the Scuola di San Rocco and the Doges' Palace and, in the same year, seems to have taken Titian's place as Court painter to the Doges.—T.