[Footnote 249: In regard to these documents the public is much indebted to the Abate Ciaccheri, the learned librarian of the city, who employed himself for many years in collecting them; but his eyes failing him, it became necessary that others should publish them: the excellent historian has frequently made mention of him.] [Footnote 250: The work was published by Trombelli, at Bologna, in 1766. _Della Valle_, tom. i. p. 278. What he adds, that this very Oderico may be the Oderigi da Gubbio, noticed by Dante in the xith canto of his Purgatorio, ought not to be admitted. Dante might, for the sake of rhyme, change Oderico into Oderigi; but he has said, in the middle of the verse, that the celebrated miniature painter was a native of Gubbio. Moreover, the latter, who died about 1300, could not have painted in 1213.] [Footnote 251: See Della Valle, tom. ii. p. 273.] [Footnote 252: This is an Annunciation, with the following verse: _Virgo parit Christum velut Angelus intimat ipso._ The error in the last word stands on the picture.] [Footnote 253: Hard by the cathedral of that city there are two lions, on one of which, in a mixture of Greek and Latin characters, is written, M_a_h_ister_ Th_exde fevit_ (fecit) & _fevit fieri ambos istos_. ] [Footnote 254: See Lettere Sanesi, tom. i. p. 243.] [Footnote 255: Tom. ii. p. 15.] [Footnote 256: P. 288.] [Footnote 257: See Lett. Sen. tom. ii. p. 276.] [Footnote 258: _Vigintiquinque Christi cum mille ducentis_, &c. Vide Piacenza, tom. i. p. 70. Baldinucci was extremely diligent in his research of epochs; but he took care not to mention this, inasmuch as it overturned his system.] [Footnote 259: History only gives him some assistants in mosaic; at Pisa Tafi and Gaddo Gaddi; at Rome, in S. Maria Maggiore, a Franciscan monk, who there executed a portrait of himself, and inscribed his name, that is now illegible, and his native place, which was Camerino. One F. Giacomo da Camerino painted in the cathedral of Orvieto in 1321, and it is probable that this is the same artist.] [Footnote 260: See ante, p. 14.] [Footnote 261: See Lett. Sen. p. 279.] [Footnote 262: Lett. Sen. tom. i. p. 277.] [Footnote 263: Ibid. tom. ii. p. 69.] [Footnote 264: Martino was the father of Simone; Memmo or Guglielmo his father-in-law; and in the inscriptions on his pictures he sometimes assumes the one name, and sometimes the other. _Benvoglienti._]