DOI Kapitel:
Chap. IX: History of Florence - its Edifices - Cathedral - Tombs - Mausoleum of the Medicean Family - Palaces - Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.62268#0364
351 CLASSICAL TOUR Ch.IX.
literature over the western world. There are
few churches in this city which are not ennobled
by the tombs of some or other of these personages;
scarce one that does not present to the eye, in-
scribed on marble or bronze, some illustrious and
well known name. Thus in the church of San
Marco we find the tomb of Picas of Mirandola,
distinguished alike by rank, fortune, genius, piety
and learning. This combination of qualities so
rare even when single, deserved to be recorded
in lines more simple and affecting than the two
bombastic verses now inscribed upon his tomb.
On the opposite side of the church lies Poli-
tianus, the friend of Lorenzo, the favorite of the
Latin muse; a trivial epitaph records his name;
but no elegiac verse deplores his untimely fate,
nor does one indignant line avenge his sullied
fame. The honor of vindicating the poet was
reserved to an English pen; and Politian owes to
the generosity of a Roscoe that which he had a
right to claim from the justice of his countrymen.
Candidas ille viget niorum tenor, etpia vitae
Simplicitas nullis est labefacta malis.
In the church of Sta. Croce we find the tomb
of Michael Angelo Bnonarotti, the painter, the
sculptor, the architect, It is graced with many
literature over the western world. There are
few churches in this city which are not ennobled
by the tombs of some or other of these personages;
scarce one that does not present to the eye, in-
scribed on marble or bronze, some illustrious and
well known name. Thus in the church of San
Marco we find the tomb of Picas of Mirandola,
distinguished alike by rank, fortune, genius, piety
and learning. This combination of qualities so
rare even when single, deserved to be recorded
in lines more simple and affecting than the two
bombastic verses now inscribed upon his tomb.
On the opposite side of the church lies Poli-
tianus, the friend of Lorenzo, the favorite of the
Latin muse; a trivial epitaph records his name;
but no elegiac verse deplores his untimely fate,
nor does one indignant line avenge his sullied
fame. The honor of vindicating the poet was
reserved to an English pen; and Politian owes to
the generosity of a Roscoe that which he had a
right to claim from the justice of his countrymen.
Candidas ille viget niorum tenor, etpia vitae
Simplicitas nullis est labefacta malis.
In the church of Sta. Croce we find the tomb
of Michael Angelo Bnonarotti, the painter, the
sculptor, the architect, It is graced with many