Marco, nor the painting of this last at Trevigi be ascribed to the former. Such a mistaken opinion has been attributed to me by the learned P. Federici; (vol. i. p. 120) but on what ground I know not.] [Footnote 43: We confess our obligations to Sig. Giuseppe Beltramelli, who informs us, in a work published in 1806, that this painter, generally supposed from Bergamo, was really a Venetian, being thus mentioned in a public contract: _M. Laurentius Lottus de Venetiis nunc habitator Bergomi_. Father Federici, who, on the strength of some historian, pronounces him of Trevigi, brings forward another document in which Lotto is called: _D. Laurentii Lotti pictoris, et de presenti Tarvisii commorantis_. If, therefore, _habitator Bergomi_ does not prove him a native of Bergamo, will the words _Tarvisii commorantis_ make him a native of Trevigi? But Father Affò, in one of his earliest pictures, found him entitled _Tarvisinus_. Who, however, can assure us that it is in fact the handwriting of Lotto, which he there found written?] [Footnote 44: Thus called by the oldest writers, though, from his father's testament, recently brought to light, it appears to be erroneous. Here his father is entitled, _Angelus de Lodesanis de Corticellis_, (or in a MS. of the Signori Mottensi of Pordenone _de Corticelsis Brixiensis_).] [Footnote 45: It is inserted in a _Transunto_ of MSS. belonging to the noble Ernesto Mottensi of Pordenone, communicated to me by the P. D. Michele Turriani Barnabita, extremely skilled in the parchments and ancient memorials of Friuli.] [Footnote 46: See his work on Venetian Painting, p. 250.]