. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. 1511, an altarpiece in four com-partments, painted in 1506, a Nativity, an Adoration of theMagi, a Noli me Tangere and three pictures of Saints. But when all is said, by far the most interesting picture inFaenza is the work of a curious follower of Cossa, who cameunder the influence of Botticelli. He was a pure Romagnoland his name was Scaletti. The only pictures we havesurely from his hand are here in Faenza. They are two, andconsist of an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saintspainted in 1484 and a portrait of the young Astorre Manfredikneelin
. The cities of Romagna and the Marches. 1511, an altarpiece in four com-partments, painted in 1506, a Nativity, an Adoration of theMagi, a Noli me Tangere and three pictures of Saints. But when all is said, by far the most interesting picture inFaenza is the work of a curious follower of Cossa, who cameunder the influence of Botticelli. He was a pure Romagnoland his name was Scaletti. The only pictures we havesurely from his hand are here in Faenza. They are two, andconsist of an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saintspainted in 1484 and a portrait of the young Astorre Manfredikneeling before S. Bernardino da Feltre. They are quitedelightful and astonishing and worthy of study. Here, too,is a delightful bust of S. John Baptist by Donatello, and astatue in wood of S. Jerome attributed to the same master. Delightful as Faenza is, it will not keep anyone too longfrom the persevering road and the most mediaeval of allthese little cities upon the Emihan Way, Forli. Forli, with its narrow, cobbled streets, dark palace and. ASTORRE MANFREDI. BY LEONARDO SCALETJIPinacoteca Faenza FORLt 99 almost threatening houses, is still the city of CatherineSforza and of that noble great defence she made in her mosttragic hour against the lightning that was Cesare. It is atown of very ancient lineage, well known to the Romans,who called it Forum Livii, though we know nothing of it atall till suddenly in the fifth century it appears as the sceneof the betrothal or the marriage of Galla Placidia withAtaulfus, the king of the Goths. Three hundred yearslater, with the rest of the Exarchate, it passed to the Papacy,and appears in the beginning of the Middle Ages as a cityof Ghibelline sympathies, ruled in the thirteenth centuryby various lords in turn—Simone Mestaguerra, MaghinardoPagano, Uguccione della Faggiuola, and others, till in 1302the Ordelaffi came into power. We see this family con-tinually trying to establish their independence of the HolySee, their overlord, and suffer
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