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 ==The Voyage of Italy. Part I. Page 124== good. Unto all which the said emperor and patriarch, and the other Greek bishops (except restless Marcus Ephesinus) subscribed; as did also the Armenians, Ethiopians, Georgians, and Jacobites, who all hereupon were admitted to communion by the Roman church. In fine, in this church you see the statues of diverse saints, who have been archbishops of this town; and the tombs of diverse famous Men ; as of Marsilius Ficinus the platonic Christian philosopher; of Dante the Florentine poet, whose true picture is yet to be seen here in a red gown: and Acutius an English Knight, and General anciently of the Pisani as the old Gothic Letters set high upon the Wall under his picture on horseback, told me. Yet Vestergan will not have him to have been called sir John Sharp, but Sir John Hawkwood. But it imports little to me what his name was, seeing he was a brave Englishman, and deserved to have his Tomb and Inscription here, and his picture among the other worthies in the Duke's Gallery. Here’s also in this Church the Tomb of Bninelleschi, or Philippus Brunaltius, who made the Cupola of this Church; as also the Tomb of Giotto, who made the campanile, or fine steeple here. And here lies Cimabue the famous painter of his time. It was he that first restored painting again, which had been loft for many years in Italy and taught it to Giotto Gaddi, Tassi and others, who carried on to great height.