Note 12 — BOOK I.

This Sebeto of Vasari appeared so new to Maffei, that he would willingly have substituted Stefano; (see Ver. Illust. p. iii. col. 152,) but Stefano da Verona, or da Zevio, is a name posterior to these times. The Notizia of the anonymous writer, recently published, says, that the church of the before mentioned S. George was ornamented by "Jacopo Davanzo, a Paduan, or a Veronese, if not, as some will have it, a Bolognese; by Altichiero Veronese, according to Campagnuola, p. 6." It must be observed that Vasari also consulted the latter, or probably one of his Latin letters to Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, quoting it several times. (See Morelli, p. 101.) Now in this it was probably written, ab Alticherio de Jebeto; that is, da Zevio, which was at one time called Jebetum, and Vasari believed it to be the name of an unknown painter. Such is the conjecture communicated to me by Sig. Brandolese, and it appears extremely probable.