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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 1059 — Chapter II · RELIGION IN DAILY LIFE.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

See his remarkable biography in Vespasiano Fiorent. p. 244 sqq., and that by Æneas Sylvius, De Viris Illustr. p. 24. In the latter we read: ‘Is quoque in tabella pictum nomen Jesus deferebat, hominibusque adorandum ostendebat multumque suadebat ante ostia domorum hoc nomen depingi.’

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