This is the way the funds were found, and now who were the builders? We have seen in a former chapter that the Visconti patronized the Campionese school of architect-sculptors, and as the Comacines had been associated with Milan for centuries, it was not necessary to look far for architects. Indeed the very first batch of names which meets our eye in the books of the _laborerium_ are all of the Lombard Guild. Here is chief architect Simone da Arsenigo written down as _ingegnere generale_; or _capo maestro_, Guarnerio da Sirtori; Marco, Jacopo, e Zeno, da Campione; and Andrea from Modena; where we have seen the Campione Masters established a school. On October 16, 1387, a meeting was held by the commission of the Duomo to discuss a project proposed by the administrators of the Fabbrica, for forming a regular organization, and electing the proper officials. It was decided-- 1. To confirm the present deputies as superintendents of the work. (Here we have the Tuscan _Operai_.) 2. To elect a treasurer-general. 3. To nominate a good and efficient accountant. 4. Also a good and efficient _spenditore_ (in Tuscany this is the _Provveditore_). 5. To confirm the election of Magister Simone da Arsenigo as head architect of the building, and to nominate enough capable Masters to assist him. (In Tuscany _capo maestro_ and _Maestri_.) 6. To confirm (considering their eminence in their art) Dionisolo di Brugora and Ambrogio da Sala (an island in Lake Como near Comacina) in their offices, and to choose others equally good to aid in the building. 7. To elect two or more _probi uomini_ (arbiters). 8. To elect lawyer, notary, and _sindaci_ (consuls) of the art. 9. "We also determine and ordain that Maestro Simone da Arsenigo, as being chief architect of the said fabric, shall order and provide for all the works done in the said church, and that he shall show diligence, etc. etc...." Here we have the exact organization we have seen at Siena, Parma, Florence, etc.; and as there the Lombard Masters are the founders of it, we find the same filing of documents, the same assigning of different parts of the building to different Masters, and the same calling of councils in the guild to consider and value the work. The registers of administration are kept in precisely the same way. The _spenditore_ keeps his books just as the Florentine _Provveditore_ does. Here are a few translations from the bad Latin of his entries-- "1387. _January 15._--For two lbs. of _morsecate_ for Maestro Andrea degli Organi, four lire." (Andrea degli Organi of Modena was the Ducal architect, the father of Filippo da Modena, a first-rate architect.) "_January 19._--For a Master and forty-seven workmen to place the foundations of the pilasters."