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402 his many friends, to whom he was endeared by his excellent qualities; it was also greatly to the loss of the world, thus prematurely deprived of his talents. Amidst these regrets there was, however, the consolation of knowing that Giorgione had left behind him two worthy disciples and excellent masters in Sebastiano, a Venetian, who was afterwards a Monk of the Piombo in Rome, and Titian del Cadore, who not only equalled, but even surpassed him greatly. Of both these artists we propose to speak in the proper place, and will then fully describe the honour and advantage which the art has derived from them.

I AM not willing to depart hastily from the land wherein our great mother Nature, that she might not be accused of partiality, presented to the world extraordinary men, of the same kind wherewith she had for so many years adorned Tuscany. Among the masters of this vicinity, then, and one endowed with an exalted and most admirable genius, was Antonio da Correggio, an excellent painter, who acquired the new