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Made by Bartolommeo Campi of Pesaro and worn by Guidobaldo II of Rovere-Montefeltre, Duke of Urbino (1514-74). In the Tsarskoje-Selo, Petrograd

wrote a manuscript, now in the National Library of Florence, entitled ''Arte Fabrile, ovvero Armeria universale'', etc. We have to thank the Baron de Cosson for enabling us to dispose of this mysterious Piripe. Enlightenment came about in this way. Placed by Boeheim as a Florentine armourer of the XVIth century, the name of Piripe always troubled the Baron; for neither Piripe nor Pifanio had any resemblance to a Florentine name. Some ten years ago the Baron de Cosson copied out that portion of Petrini's manuscript that had reference to armour and weapons, a somewhat inaccurate transcription of which had appeared in Plon's Benvenuto Cellini (Appendix X, page 397). This, according to the Baron's copy, is what Petrini really does say:—"There is to be found in the armoury that belonged to the Duke of Urbino, and which now belongs to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a helmet with its breast