[175] Ciampi, _Archivio del Duomo di Pisa_. [176] The inscription, still preserved in the passage leading to the sacristy of the church, runs thus-- † ANNO DN͞I MO. CO. OCTUAG͞O SEPTIMO. SEPULCRŪ. TEPLŪ. ET. CRUC̄E. X͞PI. SARA. CENI. CEPERUNT. PERFIDI. SUB. SALADINO. MILITE.... ANNO. PROXIMO. SEQUENTI. DIE.... KL̄. AGOSTO. HEC. HECCLĀ. DE NOVO REFŪ DARI. CEPIT.... SOLO. QUAE LAUDAT. DM̄. X BEATE. MARIE. VIT̄V. BLASI͞U CONDOR D͞IU. CERBONIU ET ALEXIUM. GUIDUS. MAISER, EDIFICAVIT. O.... [177] Ridolfi, _Guida di Lucca_, p. 10. [178] Merzario, _I Maestri Comacini_, Vol. I. chap. vi. p. 193. [179] _S. Martin von Lucca, und die Anfänge der Toscanischen Sculptur im Mittelalter_, von August Schmarsow, pp. 56, 57. Breslau, 1890. [180] Cav. F. Tolomei, _Guida di Pistoja_, p. 74. Pistoja, 1821. [181] Doctor to King Desiderius. [182] Reproduced in Muratori's _Rerum Italicum_, verse 636 _et seq._-- "Inteluum scandunt et amicos insimul addunt ... veniunt properantes Artificesque, boni nimium satis ingeniosi; Strenuus inter quosque rogatus adesse Joannes Quinque Bonus de Vesonzo cognomine dictus." [183] Merzario, _I Maestri Comacini_, Vol. I. chap. iv. pp. 161, 162. [184] Vasari, _Life of Arnolfo di Lapo_. [185] _I Maestri Comacini_, Vol. I. chap. iv. p. 162. [186] Milanesi, quoting other experts, says that when IX. is placed between hundreds and units it signifies 90, consequently the date is 1196. [187] One only has to glance at the names of the well-known artists to see how common this use of nicknames was. We have Masaccio (the bad Thomas); Cronaca, whose real name was Pollajuolo; Domenico Bigordi, called Ghirlandajo; the iron-worker Niccolò Grossi, called Caparra; Antonio Allegri, called Correggio; Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino; Alessandro Buonvicino, called Moretto da Brescia (the dark man from Brescia); Pietro Vanucci, Perugino; Andrea Vanucchi, del Sarto; Michelangelo Amerighi, nicknamed Caravaggio; Domenico Zampieri, styled Domenichino; and hundreds of others. No doubt the Buschetto architect of Pisa was only another instance; probably he had a shock head of hair and was nicknamed "the little bush." [188] Marchese Ricci, _Dell' Architettura in Italia_, Vol. I. cap. ii. p. 485, note 40. [189] The name of this councillor of the _Opera_ still exists in Lucca, where are more than one family of Pagni. [190] Tolomei, _Guida di Pistoja per gli amanti delle belle arti_, 1821.--Pistoja, p. 38 (note). [191] S. Paolo was destroyed by fire in 1896, only the outer walls having escaped. CHAPTER IV ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ORNAMENTATION