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Often appears with: venice · s. petronio madonna (1407) · political legitimacy and consent · padua · m. galante da bologna · hospitality and the guest · florence · education and the training of the young · dalmasi called lippo · custom and the manners of a people · crafts, industry, and manufacture · books, libraries, and learning

Usually: narrative (1) · record or table (1) · reunion (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · nostalgia (1)

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“And he taught the art to M. Galante da Bologna, who afterwards drew much better than he” Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Arc · insight
“And in truth one who spends his time in this manner, lives in quiet contemplation and without being molested by those ambitious desires” Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Arc · precept
“So I was determined to seek better fortune in a foreign land” Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini · insight

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini primary

Benvenuto Cellini · composed 1558–1566 (recording events down to 1562)
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On his journey via Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Padua, Cellini stays with Albertaccio del Bene and receives hospitality from Pietro Bembo, modelling a portrait and medal design.

who spoke for him, he said it was his father; to whom, after many entreaties, I replied: “Because you are his father, for your sake I will take him back.” Note 1. Sforza Sforza, son of Bosio, Count of Santa Fiore, and of Costanza Farnese, the Pope’s natural daughter. He was a youth of sixteen at this epoch. XCIV I HAD formed the resolution, as I said a short while back, to go toward France; partly because I saw th…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) secondary

Giorgio Vasari · 1550s (2nd edition revised, with later additions); Volume II includes biographies of artists from Berna to Michelozzo
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The text notes another Bologna painter also called Lippo (Dalmasi), lists specific works there from 1407, describes his teaching of M. Galante da Bologna, and continues into the next biography.

[Footnote 4: The Tribunal of commerce.] About the same time as Lippo there was in Bologna another painter, Dalmasi, also called Lippo, who was an able man, and who painted, among other works, in the year 1407 (as it may be seen in S. Petronio in Bologna), a Madonna which is held in great veneration; and in fresco, the arch over the door of S. Procolo; and in the Church of S. Francesco, in the tribune of the high-alt…