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Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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his period was Civitaliof lyUcca (1435-1501), whose works in the cathedrals of I/Uccaand of Genoa (especially his statues of Adam and Eve atGenoa) show something more than mere elegance—^somethinglike originality and some real perception of the true functionof sculpture. The South of Italy at this period produced scarcely anynative art, but was beginning to attract artists. At Rome,besides Mino of Fiesole, we hear of Mino dal Regno (from theNeapolitan Regno ), with whom he is sometimes confused.Also the Florentine Antonio del PoUaiuolo—an exquisite gold-smith, a fine medallist, a good second-class painter, anda first-class expert in anatomy ^—^is notable as sculptor onaccount of the two great bronze monuments which he made ^ Also perhaps the bust in the Palazzo Venezia, Rome. Some 30 years beforeMino we hear of the Florentine sculptor Pilarete at Rome, where he madethe famous bronze doors of St. Peters. * See the description of his (or Pieros) Pazzi conspiracy medal, p. 327. 422
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