In the thirteenth century another distinguished scion of the Buono race came down to join the lodge at Pistoja. We have seen Giovanni Buono, or Zambono as he writes himself, at work at S. Antonio at Padua in 1264, together with Egidio, son of Magister Graci; Nicola, son of Giovanni; Ubertino, son of Lanfranco, etc. In 1265 Magister Bonus or Buono was _capo-maestro_ and architect of the Duomo at Pistoja, and in 1266 he erected the tribune of S. Maria Nuova there, on the cornice of which he has carved--"A.D. MCCLXVI tempore Parisii Pagni[189] et Simones, Magister Bonus fecit hoc opus," _i.e._ A.D. 1266, in the time when Paris Pagni and Simones were _operai_, Magister Bonus executed this work. In 1270 Buono was commissioned to make the façade of the church of S. Salvatore in the same energetic little town. The inscription on the pretty little façade is-- "Anno milleno bis centum septuageno Hoc perfecit opus qui fertur nomine Bonus Præstabant operi Jacobus, Scorcione vocatus Et Benvenuti Joannes, quos Deus omnes Salvator lenis millis velit augere penis. Amen." Here we get the names of two _operai_ instead of one. It is evident that the lodge has increased since Gruamons was head of the _laborerium_, and Turrisianus head of the _Opera_. According to custom, one was an eminent Pistojese, and the other a _Magister_. We find Johannes Benvenuti working with Giovanni in several other cities. The question we have now to answer is whether this Giovanni Buono, who was in Pistoja from 1265 to 1270, was the same man who worked at Padua in 1264, and was afterwards head of the lodge at Parma in 1280? An indication, if not a lateral proof, is found in studying who were his companions. At Pistoja in 1264, Nicola, son of Giovanni, was his assistant, and in 1270 Johannes Benvenuti was with him. At Parma in 1280 we find that Guido, Nicola, Bernardino, and Benvenuto were in the _laborerium_ when he was chief architect. Here we have at least two of his companions, not including Guido, with him in the works of all three cities, which would go far to prove his identity.