. The painters of the school of Ferrara. zens, andthe tone of his correspondence with the Marchesana ofMantua shows the consideration in which he was heldabroad. In 1511, he was elected one of the sixteenGonfalonier! del Popolo in Bologna. In 1514, we findhis name proposed for one of the ojfficia ufilitatis, theholders of which represented the government of Bolognain the Contado; his proposed district being that ofCastelfranco and Varignana.^ On June 27, 1516,together with the painter Domenico Cevola, he arbi-trated in a dispute between the guild of the united artsof Bologna, the Honorevole Co
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. zens, andthe tone of his correspondence with the Marchesana ofMantua shows the consideration in which he was heldabroad. In 1511, he was elected one of the sixteenGonfalonier! del Popolo in Bologna. In 1514, we findhis name proposed for one of the ojfficia ufilitatis, theholders of which represented the government of Bolognain the Contado; his proposed district being that ofCastelfranco and Varignana.^ On June 27, 1516,together with the painter Domenico Cevola, he arbi-trated in a dispute between the guild of the united artsof Bologna, the Honorevole Compagnia de le QuattroArti, and Silvestro Orazi, who was leaving the office ofSindaco of the guild, concerning a sum of money whichthe latter claimed as due to him from the guild for ex-penses incurred during his term of office.^ Franciadied on January 5, 1518 (new style). In the Bolog- 1 Orloli, op. eit., doc. 4. » Orioli, op. cU., doc. 3. lu 1514, Francia wan mcBtaro of the fourarts for the first quarter of the year. ( « • 3 V * ». Lorenzo Costa roltTKAIT OF I5ATTISTA FIKKA Niitinnal r,:illcr\ Id Ittfl- IKItJI 1 1 2 LORENZO COSTA 113 nese Chronicle of Niccolo Seccadenari, we read : In1517 died maestro Francesco Francia, the best gold-smith of Italy, and an excellent painter, an excellentjeweller; he was a very handsome man, and mosteloquent, albeit he was the son of a master carpenter. ^Of his sons, Giacomo and Giulio, who carried on histraditions, something will be said in a later chapter. Comparatively few works of Costas Mantuan periodhave come down to us, the majority having perishedduring the political storms that swept over the duchyin the succeeding centuries. One of his first tasks wasto complete a picture, La Storia di Como, whichMantegna had begun for Isabellas cavierino in the lastvear of his life, and had left unfinished. In a letteraddressed to the Marchesana, on January 13 of thatyear, 1506, Mantegna says: I have almost finisheddesigning the history of Comus
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