A TOMB AT RAVENNA 



in the Forum and the delicate ornament of the pillars 

 which support the chapel of the crucifix in S. 

 Francesco. His son Tullio, there can be little 

 doubt, was the sculptor chosen by Benedetta to carve 

 the effigy of her dead lord. Unfortunately his statue 

 was not long allowed to remain in its place. After 

 the death of Benedetta in 1520, this tomb, which 

 may still be seen on the left of the door in S. 

 Francesco, became the property of her kinsman, 

 Bartolemmeo del Sale, who substituted his own 

 armorial bearings for those of Guidarello on the 

 sarcophagus and removed the warrior's effigy to the 

 chapel without the walls, known as the Capella 

 Braccioforte. The name of Braccioforte, however, 

 does not, as we read in some modern guide-books, 

 owe its derivation to Guidarello's strong arm, but 

 to a miracle wrought in early Christian times, 

 according to a legend recorded by Agnellus in the 

 ninth century. Here Tullio Lombardi's statue 

 remained for the next two hundred years with a 

 Latin epitaph, commemorating the splendour of the 

 hero's acts and the glory of his name, inscribed on 

 the wall above. At length, some thirty or forty 

 years ago, the statue was removed to the Accademia, 

 where it still remains, the one supremely beautiful 

 thing there. 



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