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IL FRANCIA.
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is “ come alcuni credono” (as some believe), but it
rests on no other evidence, and is so contrary to all
we know of the gentle and generous spirit of
Francia, and so inconsistent with the sentiments
which for many years he had cherished and avowed
for Raphael, that we may set it aside as unworthy
of all belief. The date of Francia’s death has been
a matter of dispute, but it appears certain from
state documents lately discovered at Bologna, that
he died Master of the Mint in that city, on the 6th
of January, 1517, being then in his sixty-eighth
year. His son Giacomo became an esteemed
painter in his father’s style: in the Berlin Gallery
there are six pictures by his hand; and one by
Giulio Francia, a cousin and pupil of the elder
Francia.
217
is “ come alcuni credono” (as some believe), but it
rests on no other evidence, and is so contrary to all
we know of the gentle and generous spirit of
Francia, and so inconsistent with the sentiments
which for many years he had cherished and avowed
for Raphael, that we may set it aside as unworthy
of all belief. The date of Francia’s death has been
a matter of dispute, but it appears certain from
state documents lately discovered at Bologna, that
he died Master of the Mint in that city, on the 6th
of January, 1517, being then in his sixty-eighth
year. His son Giacomo became an esteemed
painter in his father’s style: in the Berlin Gallery
there are six pictures by his hand; and one by
Giulio Francia, a cousin and pupil of the elder
Francia.