Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . 39- Fedisrigo di Montefei,tro 363 VENICE (1400-1500) famous portrait of the conqueror of Christian Byzantiumwhich, long a treasure of the lyayard Collection at Venice andnow in our National Gallery, bears the date 1480—^the year inwhich Venice so meanly incited the Turks to take Otranto. ^ Onemay also remember that this portrait (Fig. 18) was seen byIsabella dEste when s
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . 39- Fedisrigo di Montefei,tro 363 VENICE (1400-1500) famous portrait of the conqueror of Christian Byzantiumwhich, long a treasure of the lyayard Collection at Venice andnow in our National Gallery, bears the date 1480—^the year inwhich Venice so meanly incited the Turks to take Otranto. ^ Onemay also remember that this portrait (Fig. 18) was seen byIsabella dEste when she visited Venice in 1493. The BelUni were contemporaries of Verrocchio and Andreadella Robbia, and were somewhat older than Botticelli andPerugino, and still a little older than Francia and Leonardoda Vinci, who settled at Milan, under Lodovico il Moro, in1482, and in 1500 was at Venice. Mantegna too, as the brother-in-law of the Bellini, isassociated in ones mind both with Venice and with IsabelladBste and her husband, Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua. Hehad come to Mantua from Padua in 1460—^long before Isabellaarrived there from Ferrara—^indeed before she was born—during the reign of Francescos grandfather, that
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