ITALIAN GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE 



Giuliano's son. It is that of Leonardo Buonafede, 

 a name which frequently occurs in old Florentine 

 records, and is worthy of all remembrance. Origin- 

 ally a monk of the Certosa, this excellent man was, 

 during twenty-seven years, Spedalingo of the great 

 Florentine hospital, S. Maria Nuova, and made him- 

 self beloved by his good works and the many charit- 

 able institutions which he founded. At the end of 

 that time he became Bishop of Cortona, and when, in 

 1545, he died at a great age, wished to be buried in 

 his old convent. His portrait, with a view of the 

 Certosa in the background, is introduced in an altar- 

 piece by Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, now in the Academy. 

 It is curious to find that this saintly prelate, while 

 Spedalingo of S. Maria Nuova, was called upon to 

 baptize the infant daughter of Lorenzo di Piero de' 

 Medici, the famous Catherine, afterwards Queen of 

 France. 



Francesco di San Gallo was an inferior artist to 

 his father, and has left little work of importance 

 behind him ; but in the good Bishop's tomb, it must 

 be owned, he has succeeded in producing a master- 

 piece. There is no aiming at effect, no especial rich- 

 ness of decoration, or beauty of workmanship ; but 

 the sculptor has caught the expression which lingers 

 on the faces of the dead, and rendered it with touch- 

 ing simplicity. The old man lies on his death-bed : 



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