with
his three sons, Federigo, Ercole, and Ferrante, who afterwards became
very great and very illustrious lords; and there are likewise some
portraits of great ladies. In the other, which was painted in oil many
years after the first, and which was one of the last works that Lorenzo
executed, is the Marquis Federigo, grown to man's estate, with a staff
in his hand, as General of Holy Church under Leo X; and round him are
many lords portrayed by Costa from the life.

[Illustration: THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN

(_After the panel by =Lorenzo Costa=. Bologna: S. Giovanni in Monte_)

_Alinari_]

In Bologna, in the Palace of Messer Giovanni Bentivogli, the same man
painted certain rooms in competition with many other masters; but of
these, since they were thrown to the ground in the destruction of that
palace, no further mention will be made. But I will not forbear to say
that, of the works that he executed for the Bentivogli, only one
remained standing--namely, the chapel that he painted for Messer
Giovanni in S. Jacopo, wherein he wrought two scenes of triumphal
processions, which are held very beautiful, with many portraits. In the
year 1497, also, for Jacopo Chedini, he painted a panel for a chapel in
S. Giovanni in Monte, in which he wished to be buried after death; in
this he made a Madonna, S. John the Evangelist, S. Augustine, and other
saints. On a panel in S. Francesco he painted a Nativity, S. James, and
S. Anthony of Padua. In S. Pietro he made a most beautiful beginning in
a chapel for Domenico Garganelli, a gentleman of Bologna; but, whatever
may have been the reason, after making some figures on the ceiling, he
left it unfinished, nay, scarcely begun.

In Mantua, besides the works that he executed there for the Marquis, of
which we have spoken above, he painted a Madonna on a panel for S.
Silvestro; and on one side, S. Sylvester recommending the people of that
city to her, and, on the other, S. Sebastian, S. Paul, S. Elizabeth, and
S. Jerome. It is reported that the said panel was placed in that church
after the death of Costa, who, having finished his life in Mantua, in
which city his descendants have lived ever since, wished to have a
burial-place in that church both for himself and for his successors.

The same man made many other pictures, of which nothing more will be
said, for it is enough to have recorded the best. His portrait I
received in Mantua from Fermo Ghisoni, an excellent painter, who a