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Rh master performed many other works, of which I will speak no further, since it suffices to have named the best. I received his portrait in Mantua, from Fermo Ghisoni, an excellent painter, who assured me that the likeness was by Costa’s own hand. The latter drew tolerably well, as may be seen from our book, wherein there is a pen-and-ink drawing on parchment, representing the Judgment of Solomon, with a figure of St. Jerome in chiaro-scuro, by Lorenzo, both very well done.

The disciples of Lorenzo Costa were Ercole da Ferrara his compatriot, whose life I propose to write immediately; and Ludovico Malino, also a Ferrarese, by whom we have many works in other places, as well as in his native city; but the best that he performed was a picture which is now in the church of San Francesco, in Bologna, in a chapel near the principal door. The subject of this work is Jesus Christ at the age of twelve disputing with the Doctors in the Temple. The elder Dosso, of Ferrara, also acquired the first principles of his art under Costa, but of Dosso’s works we shall make further mention in the proper place; and this is as much as I have been able to gather respecting the life and works of Lorenzo Costa, of Ferrara.