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219. _Bandinello._ Bartolommeo Bandinelli, sculptor, of Florence (1493–1560).

_The Perseus of Benvenuto Cellini._ See Roscoe’s translation of Cellini’s _Memoirs_, chapters 41, 43, etc.

220. _Men of no mark or likelihood._ _1 King Henry IV._, Act III. Sc. 2.

221. _Even in death there is animation too._ Cf. ‘That were a theme might animate the dead,’ Cowper, _Table Talk_, 202.

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221. _Forsyth._ Joseph Forsyth (1763–1815), whose _Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters, during an Excursion in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803_, were published in 1813.

222. _Elegant Extracts._ _Elegant Extracts in Prose, in Verse, and Epistles_, 1789, and often reprinted later. Compiled by Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), Master of Tonbridge School, 1778–1812.

223. _Trim’s story of the sausage-maker’s wife._ _Tristram Shandy_, Book II. 17.

_Labour of love._ _1 Thessalonians_ i. 3.

_As Rousseau prided himself._ _Les Confessions_, Partie II. Livre ix.

224. _Just washed in the dew._ _The Taming of the Shrew_, Act II. Sc. 1.

_Strange child-worship._ Lamb, _Lines on the celebrated picture by Leonardo da Vinci; called the Virgin of the Rocks._

_Luini._ Bernardino Luini (c. 1460–70–c. 1530), whose style so resembles that of Leonardo da Vinci that it is difficult to distinguish their works.

225. _Bronzino._ A name applied to a family of Florentine painters, Angiolo Allori (1502–1572), Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), and Cristofano Allori (1577–1621).

_The late Mr. Opie._ John Opie (1761–1807), portrait painter. See vol. VI. _Mr. Northcote’s Conversations_, p. 343 and note.

_A thing of life._ Byron’s _Corsair_, Canto I. 3.

226. _Deliberation sits and public care._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 303.

_Julio Romano._ See _ante_, note to p. 18.

_Andrea del Sarto._ See _ante_, note to p. 25.

_Giorgioni._ See _ante_, note to p. 26.

_Schiavoni._ ?Andrea Meldolla, or Il Schiavone (1522–1582), of Dalmatian birth, a follower of Titian.

_Cigoli._ Lodovico Cardi, otherwise called Cigoli (1559–1613), Florentine painter, a follower of Andrea del Sarto and Michael Angelo.

_Fra Bartolomeo._ Bartolommeo di Pagholo del Fattorino, generally called Fra Bartolommeo (1475–1517). Some of his earliest sketches he committed to the flames under the influence of Savonarola in 1489 and, later, became a monk.

_Shardborne beetle._ _Macbeth_, Act III. Sc. 2.

_Lady Morgan._ Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1783?-1859), the novelist. Her _Life of Salvator Rosa_ was published in 1823; see Hazlitt’s review of it, vol. X., _Edinburgh Review Articles_, pp. 276 _et seq._

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