Note 29 — BOOK I.
Thomas Roscoe translation
Albert Durer, arriving the same year at Venice, bestowed on Giovanni one of the most favourable testimonies to his talents that now remains. After rebuking the envy of the other painters, who spoke of him with contempt, he says of him:—"Every one assures me that he is Gran Galantuomo, for which reason I wish him well. He is already very old, but, notwithstanding, the best painter we have." V. Morel. Not. p. 224.