Page:Vasari - Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, volume 1.djvu/427

“D’Annibal Caro
Pinsi et la mia pittura al ver fu pari;
 L’atteggiai, l’avvivai, le diedi il moto
 Le diedi affetto. Insegui il Bonarroto
 A tutti gli altri e da me solo impari.”^[1]

“Di Fabio Segni
Invida cur, Lacbesis, primo sub flore juventae
 Pollice discindis stamina funereo?
Hoc uno occiso, innumeros occidis Apelles:
 Picturse omnis obit, hoc obeunte lepos.
Hoc sole extincto, extinguntur sydera cuncta.
 Heu! decus omne perit, hoc pereunte simul.”

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THE FLORENTINE SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI.

[born 1377^[2]—died 1446.]

There are many men who, though formed by nature with small persons and insignificant features, are yet endowed with so much greatness of soul and force of character, that unless they can occupy themselves with difficult—nay, almost impossible undertakings, and carry these enterprises to perfection to the admiration of others, they are incapable of finding peace for their lives. And, however mean or un-

Masaccii Florentini ossa
Toto hoc teguntur templo
Quern Natura lortassis invidia mota
Ne quandoque superaretur ab Arte
Anno aetatis suae xxvi.
Proh dolor! iniquissime rapuit
Quod inopia factum forte fuit
Id honori sibi vertit virtus.”

1.     “I painted, and my picture was as life;
       Spirit and movement to my forms I gave—
       I gave them soul and being. He who taught
       All others—Michael Angelo—I taught:
       He deigned to learn of me.....
   
   
2. That this is the true date of Brunelleschi’s birth, appears from a document cited by Gaye, vol. i, 113, 115; as also from an anonymous biographer, contemporary with this master, and whose life of him was published by Moreni in 1612.