Note 114 — Chapter XI

Vasari’s Life of Fra Giocondo (ix. 155 seq.) is very imperfect and leaves room for further study. On Giocondo’s works in his own city see G. Orti Manara, Dei lavori architettonici di Fra Giocondo in Verona, Ver., 1853. On his collection of inscriptions see G. B. de Rossi, I Fasti municipali di Venosa restituite alla sincera lezione, Rome 1853. (From vol. cxxxiii. of the Giornale Arcadico.) According to the Novelle letterarie di Firenze for the year 1771, p. 725, the Medicean copy was sent to Pope Clement XIV., but has never been seen either in the Vatican archives or the library. On the other copies, and the second collection, differing from the first in some respects, less numerous, and dedicated to Ludovico de Agnellis, Archbishop of Cosenza, cf. De Rossi, p. 7 seq. The dedication—‘Laurentio Medici Fr. Io. Jucundus S. P. D.’—is in Fabroni, ii. 279 seq. It ends: ‘Vale feliciter humani generis amor et deliciæ.’