Here we get the city as well as the bishopric to which Magister Giorgius belonged. He was a citizen of Jesi in the diocese of Como, and a qualified member of the higher rank of the Comacine Guild. In the little town of Penna in the same province, where the church was ruined in an earthquake, an ancient stone was found with the following inscription in old Latin--"In the name of God. Amen. This work was commenced in the time of the Priest Gualtieri, and completed in that of the Priest Grazia, by Master George of Jesi in the year 1256." By these stones we find that Master George worked in the province of Piceno for thirty years, between Fermo, Jesi, and Penna. To him is attributed the ancient communal palace of Jesi which was rebuilt in the fifteenth century by other Comacine Masters. FOOTNOTES: [124] _Pisa illustrata nelle Arti del Disegno._ [125] Professor Ridolfi, _L' Arte in Lucca_, p. 74, _et seq._ [126] Sull' Architettura e sulla Scultura in Venezia nel medio evo sino ai nostri giorni. _Studi di P. Selvatico_, cap. ii. p. 48. [127] Selvatico, _Storia della Scultura_, Lib. II. cap. ii. [128] _Storia di Como_, vol. i. p. 537. [129] In a work by Luigi Mazara (_Temple antédiluvien découvert dans l'île de Calypso_, Paris 1872) there are two engravings of gateways, one a subterranean one at Alatri in Latium, which is said to have been the work of Saturn, and is called the Porta Sanguinaria; the other of Cyclopean architecture was also in Latium, and called Porta Acuminata; both of them are pointed arches. This would carry the invention back to 2000 B.C. Many of the subterranean aqueducts of Rome have acute arches for purposes of strength. [130] Seroux, _Histoire de l'art par les monuments_, p. ii. Paris. [131] Hope, _Storia dell' Architettura_, cap. xxxiii. [132] Selvatico, _Sull' architettura e scultura in Venezia dal medio evo_, p. 90. Venezia, 1874. [133] Affò, _Storia di Parma_, tomo iii. p. 14. [134] See _Borgo S. Donnino e suo Santuario_, pp. 59 and 112, by an anonymous author. [135] "Dicta ecclesia fundata fuit anno Dominicæ Incarnationis millesimo centesimo III gesimo septimo sub dom Papa Innocentio II., sub Episcopo Rogerio, Regnante Rege Lothario, per Magistrum Fredum."--_Storia della Città e Chièsa di Bergamo_, Tomo III. lib. x. [136] The contract, which is preserved in the archives of Bellano, is dated July 18, 1348--"Indictione prima in burgo Bellano, Magister Johannes filius quondam Magistri Ugonis de Campilione, et Magister Antonius filius quondam Jacobi de Castelatio de Pelo Vallis Intelvi, et Magister Comolus filius quondam Magistri Gufredi de Hosteno plebis Porleciae, qui omnes tres magistri de muro et lignamine laboraverunt ad laborem Ecclesiæ novæ," etc. [137] Merzario, _I Maestri Comacini_, Vol. I. chap. iv. p. 145. [138] Documents exist which mention it in King Luitprand's time, A.D. 713, and in that of the Emperor Otho, 989.