[62] _Hoc opus factum fuit tempore potestarie magnifici et potentis militis domini Fidesmini de Varano civis Camerinensis honorabilis potestatis_ ... the remainder is wanting. [63] In an article in the _Quarterly Review_ for July, 1904, the following suggestion is made: “A theory of reconciliation is clearly required, and easily suggests itself. May not the chapel have been originally decorated by Giotto, and have sustained, in the fire of 1332, injuries which left nothing but the main lines of its compositions intact? May not the date 1337, inscribed on the left wall below the figure of St. Venanzius, refer to a restoration undertaken, according to the original design, by the nameless pupil who also painted the miracle of the fallen child? Such an explanation receives support from the fact that, on the south wall of the chapel, the framing is not adapted to the frescoes, and is therefore hardly likely to be of the same date.” [64] Through the kindness of Sir Dominic Colnaghi I am informed that, “no painter of this name is known to have worked in Florence in the fourteenth century. Vasari evidently mixed up two painters in one notice, _i. e._ Giotto di Maestro Stefano, known as Giottino, and Maso di Banco. Antonio Billi (libro di Antonio Billi, ed. Frey. p. 14) states that among his other works Maso di Banco painted the Duke of Athens and his followers, on the façade of the Palazzo del Podestà.” [65] By the effigy of the Duke was: Avaro, traditore, e poi crudele, Lussurioso, ingiusto e spergiuro, Giammai non tenne suo stato securo. 2. By that of Messer Cerrettieri Visdomini: Come potevi tu signor durare, Essendo in vizi et in peccato involto E me per tuo consiglio avevi tolto. 3. By that of Messer Ranieri di S. Gemignano: Deh come degnamente mi potevi Far cavalier; che tu ed io avari Siamo e sempre fummo piu che Mida, Tradendo sempre l’uom che in noi si fida. 4. By that of Messer Gugliemo d’Assisi, Captain of the People: Tu mi fascesti più che altr’uom crudele; Però mi grava più la tua partita, In quel furore ch’io perdei la vita. 5. By that of his son Gabriel: Aver padre crudel, m’era diletto Poi vidi gli occhi suoi in palese insegna; E quello avviene a chi male c’insegna. 6. By that of Meliadusse d’Ascoli, Podestà in 1342, who helped to make the Duke Lord of Florence: Io porto sotto la lima e la fraude, E di te m’ingegnai farti signore; Or ne se fuor per tuo poco valore. 7. And on a book which Friar Giotto of S. Gemignano holds in his hand: Vie più m’incresce di me e mio fratello Veder l’un traditore, l’altro ingrato, Che veder te di signoria cacciato. [66] _Il Palazzo del Podestà._ Illustrazione Storica di Giovan Battista Uccelli. Firenze, 1865. [67] In large characters was written: