-----+------+-------------------------+------------------------------- |About | | 1. | 712 |Magister Ursus | Sculptured the altar at | | | Ferentilla, and a ciborium at | | | S. Giorgio di Valpolicella, | | | for King Luitprand. | | | 2&3. | 712 |M. Ivvintino and Ivviano.| Disciples of Ursus. | | (Joventino and | | | Joviano) | | | | 4. | " |Magister Giovanni | Made the tomb of S. Cumianus. | | | 5. | 739 |M. Rodpert | Worked at Toscanella, and | | | bought land there. | | | 6. | 742 |M. Piccone | Architect employed by Gunduald | | | at Lucca: he received a gift | | | of lands in Sabine in 742. | | | 7. | |M. Auripert | A painter patronized by King | | | Astolph. -----+------+-------------------------+------------------------------- It was on April 2, 568, that the Longobards under Alboin, with their wives and children and with all their belongings, "_colle loro mogli e figli, e con tutte le sostanze loro_," first came down and took Friuli. Alboin gave the government there to Gisulph, his nephew, leaving with him many of the chief and bravest families, and a high-bred race of horses (_generosa razza di cavalli_). Next he took Vicenza and Verona, and in September 569 passed into Liguria--which then extended from the Adda to the Ligurian Sea,--and conquered Milan. To this add Emilia, and later, Ravenna and Tuscany, and the first Lombard kingdom was complete. From this kingdom depended the three dukedoms of Friuli, Spoleto, and Beneventum. The last was added in the time of Autharis (575-591) when, like Canute, he rode into the sea at Reggio in Calabria, and touching the waves with his lance, cried--"These alone shall be the boundary of the Longobards."[20] This Autharis married Theodolinda, a Christian. He was an Arian, but by her means he became Catholic. After his death, in 590, she chose Agilulf, who reigned with her twenty-five years.[21] Paulus Diaconus gives the following very pretty account of Theodolinda's two betrothals--