Passavant, Johann David: Raphael of Urbino and his father Giovanni Santi (London , New York: MacMillan and Co., 1872)

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Ligismon6o Nalatesta, passing tbrougb tbs 6ucb/ ok Urbino wikb tbs
troops ok tire pope, lai6 waste Urbino wbb 6re ancl swor6? "broublscl b/
tbsse clisaslers, ancl bnowing tbe/ would probabl/ be renewed,^ Ire mads
up Iris mind, iir 1450, to leave Iris Irorrre, altbougb Iris Irouse was still
standing, and to §0 witlr Iris wiks and cbildren to settle in tire town ok
Urbino, wlrielr okkered at tire sanre time greater security ancl greater
resources. Ide died tlrere in 1457, ancl Iris wiks Oentilina eigbt /ears
later.
lklis son Zante bad married bllisabetta, and lrad two sons and two
daugbters, Oiovanni and Bartolomeo, IVlargberita and Lanta, kle lived
in a Irouse in tire lVIarbet-place/ belonging kor a long time to tire brotber-
Irood ok Lanta IVlaria della Nisericorclia, wlriclr lrad let it to lrim kor tire
sum ok tlrirteen ducats a /ear.
L/ engaging in business and trading in corn, Zante lrad improved
Iris kortune. On tire 28tlr October, 1457, be was able, conjoint!/ witlr
one ok bis nepbews, to pa/ two bundrsd and kort/ ducats kor some
property belonging to bierantonio baltroni, secretar/ and councillor in
tbe ducb/ ok Urbino. On tbs zotb ^.pril, 1461, be acquired more land,
and a good meadow, witb a stream ok water bowing tbrougb it. dkwo
/ears akter be bougbt kor tbs sum ok two bundrecl and kort/ ducats, in
tbe street named tbe Oontrada del Nonte, two adjacent bouses, wlriclr
still korm one ok tbe most renrarbable constructions ok tbat quarter. It
was tlrere tbat ldapbael was to be born.
Ibe new residence ok tbe Lanti kamil/ produced tbe bappiest ekkect
on tbe intelligent nature ok tbe /oung Oiovanni.
lbs town ok Ilrbino is ver/ bealtb/, and in a beautiful situation,
near tbe bigbest point ok tbe spermine wlriclr separates tbe IVlarcbes
ok Ancona krom luscan/ and Umbria. Ibe cones and rig^ags ok
tbe mountains wlriclr surround it stand out in sbarp reliek against tbe

' Idris is tbs reason wb/ Oiovanni Lanti, tire grandson of psrurrolo, exclaims
dolskull/ in tire dedication to tire Vuks Ouidubaldo ok tlrs Llrronicls in drains, of
rvlriclr rve slrall spealc Irereafter—"?ats Iras reduced m/paternal roof to asbss, and
destroyed all our Zoods. IVlucb time would be required to relate one after anotlrer all
tire miseries and aWctions of nr/ existence !"
° We read in LIsnrsntini (Ltoria di Itimino, lib. ix. p. 242-^1462. October z.
Lolbordolo, bavins dared to resist, was abandoned to pillars and tire flames ; tbe men
were made prisoners belsnrone, tlrs Zsneral of tbs infantr/ of Lount pede-
rico, and Lommandant of lalaccbio (tbs fortress of Oolbordolo), surrendered b/
capitulation, but onl/ after tbs destruction of lralf of its walls."
b Ibis bouse ma/ still be seen at tlrbino.