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508 beauty from their endeavours. By the works of these brothers, performed in so many parts of Italy, the Florentine name has moreover received a great accession of honour, to the lasting glory of the Tuscan genius, which, to their revered memory, hath dedicated the following verses:— “Cedite Romani structores, cedite Graii
 * Artis, Vitruvi, tu quoque cede parens,

Etruscos celebrare viros testudinis arcus,
 * Urna, tholus, statuae, templa, domusque petunt.”