. Baldassare Castiglione the perfect courtier, his life and letters, 1478-1529;. statueof the risen Christ, was erected over the tomb. Thefigure, with its uplifted arm and flying draperies,recalls the Christ of the Transfiguration which MesserGiulio had painted from his masters designs inIlaphaels last altar-piece ; and the roof of the chapelis decorated with medallions of the Passion andResurrection framed in delicate arabesques, similar tothose which had excited Castigliones admiration inthe Vatican Loggie. At the request of LodovicoStrozzi, whom he met at the Emperors coronation,at Bologna
. Baldassare Castiglione the perfect courtier, his life and letters, 1478-1529;. statueof the risen Christ, was erected over the tomb. Thefigure, with its uplifted arm and flying draperies,recalls the Christ of the Transfiguration which MesserGiulio had painted from his masters designs inIlaphaels last altar-piece ; and the roof of the chapelis decorated with medallions of the Passion andResurrection framed in delicate arabesques, similar tothose which had excited Castigliones admiration inthe Vatican Loggie. At the request of LodovicoStrozzi, whom he met at the Emperors coronation,at Bologna in 1530, Bembo composed a Latin epitaphto be inscribed on the marble. Four days ago, he wrote from Venice to his oldfriends nephew, I received a letter from M. LazzaroBonamico, saying that you had asked him to remindme of the promise which I made to you in Bolognaregarding your uncle Count Baldassares since you also begged that this should be donepromptly, I send you these lines which I have com-posed without troubling M. I^azzaro. If I had more ^ Donesmondi,
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