DOTES SINGULARESQUE VIRTUTES XV KAL. MAIAS
ANNO MCCCCXLVI EJUS B.M. CORPUS HAC HUMO SUPPOSITA GRATA PATRIA
SEPELIRI JUSSIT.

To do him even greater honour, others have gone so far as to add these
two other inscriptions:

PHILIPPO BRUNELLESCO ANTIQUAE ARCHITECTURAE INSTAURATORI S.P. Q.F.
CIVI SUO BENE MERENTI.

Giovan Battista Strozzi made the second:

TAL SOPRA SASSO SASSO
DI GIRO IN GIRO ETERNAMENTE IO STRUSSI;
CHE COSI PASSO PASSO
ALTO GIRANDO AL CIEL MI RICONDUSSI.

Other disciples of Filippo were Domenico dal Lago di Lugano; Geremia da
Cremona, who worked very well in bronze, together with a Sclavonian who
made many works in Venice; Simone, who died at Vicovaro while executing
a great work for the Count of Tagliacozzo, after having made the Madonna
in Orsanmichele for the Guild of the Apothecaries; Antonio and Niccolo,
both Florentines, who, working in metal at Ferrara, made a horse of
bronze for Duke Borso in the year 1461; and many others, of whom it
would take too long to make particular mention. Filippo was unfortunate
in certain respects, for, besides the fact that he ever had some one to
contend with, some of his buildings were not completed in his time and
are still unfinished. To mention only one, it was a great pity that the
Monks of the Angeli, as it has been said, could not finish the temple
begun by him, since, after they had spent on the portion that is now
seen more than three thousand crowns, drawn partly from the Guild of
Merchants and partly from the Monte, where their money was kept, the
capital was squandered and the building remained, as it still remains,
unfinished. Wherefore, as it was said in the life of Niccolo da Uzzano,
if a man desires to leave such memorials behind him, let him do it for
himself the while that he lives, and let him not put his trust in
anyone; and what has been said of this edifice could be said of
many others designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.

DONATO

LIFE OF DONATO

[_DONATELLO_]

SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE

Donato, who was called Donatello by his relatives and wrote his name
thus on some of his works, was born in Florence in the year 1403.
Devoting himself to the arts of design, he was not only a very rare
sculptor and a marvellous statuary, but also a practised worker in
stucco, an able master of perspective, and greatly esteemed as an
architect; and his works showed so great