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TINTORETTO
furniture, excepting a perpetual charge of 9 ducats to the House of God, due
each year at the Feast of the Redeemer, to provide for my sisters, the nuns,
the legacy left them by my mother, and to pay to Madama Laura Zorzi the
sum which my uncle left her for her life.
‘ I leave my brother, after the death of this lady, an annual payment of
two staras of cheese and two mastelli of wine for his life, and till such time as
Madama Laura demises I desire
cheese and one mastello of wine.
my sisters to pay my brother one stara of
‘ I leave to my second brother all the models of the school. If Bastiano,
my PUP*E is still in my service at the time of my death, I leave him four
models, a head of Vitellius, a statue and two torsos, besides all theTdrawings
bearing the name of Bastiano and all those signed Zuane, and I also leave the
said Bastiano 150 Academy sketches of men and 50 of women, at his choice,
besides all the ground colours, brushes, and a porphyry stone.
‘ I bequeath to my brother all the sketches and reproductions made by my
father of his portrait painted upon canvas. The portrait itself will belong to
my sister Ottavia, besides all my furniture present or future, or which may
come to me in any manner whatsoever. I leave to my sister Ottavia the land
and house of Carpineto, my house in Venice, my furniture, pictures and other
things belonging to me, with the obligation of restoring money paid for works
not yet begun, as is just.
‘ I wish Ottavia to give to Signora Perazzo, in token of affection, some
picture of mine, whichsoever she likes, and to give one to Signor Cavaliere
Fornagier.1
(He then appoints executors, and expresses his trust that none of his
descendants will part with their inheritance.)
4 After the death of my sisters, Ottavia and Laura, the property of Zelarino
is to revert to my brother, and at his death to my sisters, the nuns of
St. Anna.
4 The wine and cheese are to be taken from the property of Zelarino.1
The head of Vitellius is doubtless the one of which Tintoretto has left so
many drawings.
VII. P. 83
A LETTER FROM ARETINO ON THE 4 MIRACLE OF ST. MARK1
4 da che la voce della publica a laude, conferma con quella propria di me
datani nel gran1 quadro dell1 historia dediceta in la Scola di San Marco, mi
rallegio non meno con il mio giudizio, che sa tanto innanzi, ch1 io mi facci con
la vostra arte, che passa si oltra, e si come non e naso per infreddato che sia,
che non senta in qualche parte il fumo de lo incenso, cosi non e huomo si poco,
instrutto nella virtu del dissegno, che non si stupisca nel silieno della figura,
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furniture, excepting a perpetual charge of 9 ducats to the House of God, due
each year at the Feast of the Redeemer, to provide for my sisters, the nuns,
the legacy left them by my mother, and to pay to Madama Laura Zorzi the
sum which my uncle left her for her life.
‘ I leave my brother, after the death of this lady, an annual payment of
two staras of cheese and two mastelli of wine for his life, and till such time as
Madama Laura demises I desire
cheese and one mastello of wine.
my sisters to pay my brother one stara of
‘ I leave to my second brother all the models of the school. If Bastiano,
my PUP*E is still in my service at the time of my death, I leave him four
models, a head of Vitellius, a statue and two torsos, besides all theTdrawings
bearing the name of Bastiano and all those signed Zuane, and I also leave the
said Bastiano 150 Academy sketches of men and 50 of women, at his choice,
besides all the ground colours, brushes, and a porphyry stone.
‘ I bequeath to my brother all the sketches and reproductions made by my
father of his portrait painted upon canvas. The portrait itself will belong to
my sister Ottavia, besides all my furniture present or future, or which may
come to me in any manner whatsoever. I leave to my sister Ottavia the land
and house of Carpineto, my house in Venice, my furniture, pictures and other
things belonging to me, with the obligation of restoring money paid for works
not yet begun, as is just.
‘ I wish Ottavia to give to Signora Perazzo, in token of affection, some
picture of mine, whichsoever she likes, and to give one to Signor Cavaliere
Fornagier.1
(He then appoints executors, and expresses his trust that none of his
descendants will part with their inheritance.)
4 After the death of my sisters, Ottavia and Laura, the property of Zelarino
is to revert to my brother, and at his death to my sisters, the nuns of
St. Anna.
4 The wine and cheese are to be taken from the property of Zelarino.1
The head of Vitellius is doubtless the one of which Tintoretto has left so
many drawings.
VII. P. 83
A LETTER FROM ARETINO ON THE 4 MIRACLE OF ST. MARK1
4 da che la voce della publica a laude, conferma con quella propria di me
datani nel gran1 quadro dell1 historia dediceta in la Scola di San Marco, mi
rallegio non meno con il mio giudizio, che sa tanto innanzi, ch1 io mi facci con
la vostra arte, che passa si oltra, e si come non e naso per infreddato che sia,
che non senta in qualche parte il fumo de lo incenso, cosi non e huomo si poco,
instrutto nella virtu del dissegno, che non si stupisca nel silieno della figura,
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