San Francesco, of Imola, and executed the sculptures of the principal door, whereon he engraved his name and the date, which was 1343. In Bologna also, the same Jacopo erected a marble tomb, in the church of San Domenico, for Giovanni Andrea Calduino,[1] doctor of laws, and secretary to Pope Clement VI, with another in the same church, and also in marble, for Taddeo Peppoli, Conservator of the people and of justice in Bologna.[2] In the same year, which was 1347, or a short time before, having finished this sepulchre, Maestro Jacopo repaired to his native city of Venice, where, at the request of a Florentine abbot, of the ancient family of the Abati, he founded the church of Sant’ Antonio, which had previously been of wood, the reigning doge being Messer Andrea Dandolo. This church was finished in the year 1349.
Jacobello, and Pietro Paolo, both Venetians, were also disciples of Agostino and Agnolo. These artists erected a marble tomb in the church of San Domenico, at Bologna, in 1383, for Messer Giovanni da Lignano, doctor of laws. They belonged to a large number of sculptors, who, for a long time, preserved one and the same manner, so that they filled all Italy with works of similar character. It is believed also that the Pesarese, who, among many other things, constructed the church of San Domenico, in his native city of Pesaro, was likewise a disciple of Agostino and Agnolo; and the manner of the three figures in full-relief on the marble door of the church—God the Father, namely, with St. John the Baptist and St. Mark—make it sufficiently obvious that he was of their school. This work was completed in the year 1385. But as it would lead me too far if I were to name the works of the many masters who laboured at that time in the same manner, so what I have said thus generally shall now suffice me, and the rather as our arts have not derived any great benefit from these works.
Of those above-named, I have thought fit to make mention, for if they do not merit that we should speak of them at length, neither were they such, on the other hand, as that we should pass them by wholly in silence.
