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Belonging to the burgonet, fig. 1220, and the breastplate, fig. 1221 By Bartolommeo Campi. Bargello, Florence

From the same harness, associated with a Picinino suit. Riggs Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York

and shoulders, which is said to have belonged to Hannibal the Carthaginian." Then follows a description of the work on it, which exactly corresponds to that of the helmet at Petrograd and to that of the breastplate (Fig. 1221) and to the left espalier (Fig. 1222) in the Bargello, Florence, also to the right espalier (Fig. 1223) now associated with the Duke of Alva suit by Picinino in the Riggs Collection, Metropolitan Museum of New York. After expatiating on the beauty of this work, Petrini goes on to say: (Translation) "It was made, so affirms Felitian the Macedonian (Felitiano Macedonio), by Piripe, a most excellent sculptor, who later was called Pifanio Tacito, who was a hero in this art. There is in the same armoury a salade of Æneas the Trojan, which was purchased by Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino when he was General of the Republic of Venice, and it is considered a great marvel. On it are embossed two masks, one on the crown-piece, the other on the visor, and this was made by Repa, the son of Numa the Babylonian, according to the statement of Demosthenes." The Baron de Cosson wonders, as must everybody who reads the quotation, how Boeheim, with his excellent knowledge of Italian, could have made such a blunder; for, as is at once apparent, Petrini never suggests that Piripe was a Florentine