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. 
Throughout the greater part of the fifteenth 
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