While Sixtus IV was alive, Lorenzo de' Medici became ambassador to the Florentines, and made the journey to Spoleto, in order to demand from that community the body of Fra Filippo, to the end that it might be laid in S. Maria del Fiore in Florence; but their answer to him was that they were lacking in ornaments, and above all in distinguished men, for which reason they demanded Filippo from him as a favour in order to honour themselves, adding that since there was a vast number of famous men in Florence, nay, almost a superfluity, he should consent to do without this one; and more than this he could not obtain. It is true, indeed, that afterwards, having determined to do honour to him in the best way that he could, he sent his son Filippino to Rome to paint a chapel for the Cardinal of Naples; and Filippino, passing through Spoleto, caused a tomb of marble to be erected for him at the commission of Lorenzo, beneath the organ and over the sacristy, on which he spent one hundred ducats of gold, which were paid by Nofri Tornabuoni, master of the bank of the Medici; and Lorenzo also caused Messer Angelo Poliziano to write the following epigram, which is carved on the said tomb in antique lettering: CONDITUS HIC EGO SUM PICTURAE FAMA PHILIPPUS; NULLI IGNOTA MEAE EST GRATIA MIRA MANUS. ARTIFICES POTUI DIGITIS ANIMARE COLORES, SPERATAQUE ANIMOS FALLERE VOCE DIU. IPSA MEIS STUPUIT NATURA EXPRESSA FIGURIS, MEQUE SUIS FASSA EST ARTIBUS ESSE PAREM. MARMOREO TUMULO MEDICES LAURENTIUS HIC ME CONDIDIT; ANTE HUMILI PULVERE TECTUS ERAM. Fra Filippo was a very good draughtsman, as may be seen in our book of drawings by the most famous painters, particularly in some wherein the panel of S. Spirito is drawn, with others showing the chapel in Prato. FOOTNOTES: [12] See note on p. 57, Vol. I. PAOLO ROMANO, MAESTRO MINO, AND CHIMENTI CAMICIA LIVES OF PAOLO ROMANO AND MAESTRO MINO, SCULPTORS [_MINO DEL REGNO, OR MINO DEL REAME_] AND CHIMENTI CAMICIA, ARCHITECT