Note 284 — Chapter XIX · (XXXIII.)
Louisa S. Maclehose translation
The ‘Pax,’ Italian ‘pace,’ was a little tablet of metal or some other material used in churches to transmit the kiss of peace from the priest to the people. Certain paxes once in the Baptistry of Florence have now found their way through the Uffizi to the Museum in the Bargello, but experts are not agreed as to the ascription of particular examples to Finiguerra. See Milanesi’s note on this artist at the close of Vasari’s Life of Marc Antonio Raimondi (Opere, V, 443).