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lives of the artists.
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.”
end of vol. ii.
J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.
