In the eighteen-sixties died a Signor Lombardi, who owned certain reliefs which he believed to be Donatello's.

One's impulse is not to look at this encroaching piece of novelty at all; but one should resist that feeling, because, on examination, the Madonna and Children above Signor Lombardi's head become exceedingly interesting.

Oxford and Paris, see finem P. Lombardi. 1259.

138, as cited by Lombardi, relates the following legend of Piccarda: 'Her brother Corso, inflamed with rage against his virgin sister, having joined with him Farinata, an infamous assassin, and twelve other abandoned ruffians, entered the monastery by a ladder, and carried away his sister forcibly to his own house; and then, tearing off her religious habit, compelled her to go in a secular garment to her nuptials.

" That is, says Lombardi, "I thought my eyes could not possibly be more favoured and imparadised" (Pensai che non potessero gli occhi miei essere graziati ed imparadisati maggiormente)Variorum edition of Dante, Padua, 1822, vol.

I suspect, with Lombardi, from his general character, and from the willingness he has avowed to make such boasts (see the opening of canto xvi.,

Lombardi in loc. vol.

Nothing resulted from this petition, and the supreme poet's remains still rest beneath "the little cupola, more neat than solemn," guarded by Pietro Lombardi's half-length portrait.

In 1858, $36,000 were given for the choice of twenty, of the early Italian schools, from the Lombardi Gallery at Florence,not masterpieces, but simply characteristic specimens, more or less restored.

LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA. Autumn's torch.

SEE Lombardi, Cynthia.

LOMBARDI, CYNTHIA. Autumn's torch.

SEE Lombardi, Cynthia.