Part 18 (1/2)

[136] The contract, which is preserved in the archives of Bellano, is dated July 18, 1348--”Indictione prima in burgo Bellano, Magister Johannes filius quondam Magistri Ugonis de Campilione, et Magister Antonius filius quondam Jacobi de Castelatio de Pelo Vallis Intelvi, et Magister Comolus filius quondam Magistri Gufredi de Hosteno plebis Porleciae, qui omnes tres magistri de muro et lignamine laboraverunt ad laborem Ecclesiae novae,” etc.

[137] Merzario, _I Maestri Comacini_, Vol. I. chap. iv. p. 145.

[138] Doc.u.ments exist which mention it in King Luitprand's time, A.D.

713, and in that of the Emperor Otho, 989.

[139] Arbitrio duorum magistrorum antelami seu fabricorum murariorum eligendorum per magistratus.--Quoted by Merzario, Vol. I. chap. iv. p.

168.

[140] Merzario, _I Maestri Comacini_, Vol. I. chap. v. p. 171.

[141] _Storia di Parma_, tom i. Appendix, p. 43. ”In mille ducto octuago p. mo indictione, nona facti fuere leones per Magistrum ianne bonum d. bixono et tpore fratrum guidi, nicolay, bnardini et bevenuti di Laborerio.”

[142] This Giambono or Giovanni Buono was, I believe, the founder of the Lodge at Pistoja, or at least Master of it in about 1260. His works in Tuscany are many and important, as will be seen when the Tuscan link is under consideration.

CHAPTER II

THE MODENA-FERRARA LINK

THE CAMPIONESE SCHOOL AT MODENA

----+---------+----------------------------+----------------------------- 1.

1050

Magister Ersati di Ligorno

2.

1099

M. Lanfranco, son of

Chief architect at Modena in

Ersati

1099. His son Ubertino

forms a link with Padua,

where he worked at the

church of S. Antonio in

1263.

3.

1130

M. Guglielmo or Vigilelmo }

Sculptors on the facades of 4.

M. Ambroxius, his son }

Modena and Ferrara 5.

M. Nicolaus }

cathedrals.

{ a.s.sist in the facade of

{ Ferrara cathedral. There 6.

12th

M. Meo di Cecco, and

{ was a Marco di Frixone da 7.

century

M. Antonio di Frix of Como

{ Campione at Milan a century

{ later in 1300, probably a

{ descendant of this one.

8.

1209

M. Anselmo da Campione

Sculptured the porch of

Modena cathedral; was chief

architect in 1181.

9.

1244

M. Ottaccio } Sons of

The office of head architect

} Anselmo da

was made hereditary in the

} Campione,

family.

10.

M. Alberto } who was

} also called