nto of Pisa. In Volterra, likewise, he executed certain works,
of which there is no need to make mention.

Now, while Benozzo was working in Rome, there was another painter there
called Melozzo, who came from Forli; and many who know no more than
this, having found the name of Melozzo written and having compared the
dates, have believed that Melozzo stands for Benozzo; but they are
mistaken, for the said painter was one who lived at the same time and
was a very zealous student of the problems of art, devoting particular
diligence and study to the making of foreshortenings, as may be seen in
S. Apostolo at Rome, in the tribune of the high-altar, where, in a
frieze drawn in perspective, as an ornament for that work, there are
some figures picking grapes, with a cask, which show no little of the
good. But this is seen more clearly in the Ascension of Jesus Christ, in
the midst of a choir of angels who are leading him up to Heaven, wherein
the figure of Christ is so well foreshortened that it seems to be
piercing the ceiling, and the same is true of the angels, who are
circling with various movements through the spacious sky. The Apostles,
likewise, who are on the earth below, are so well foreshortened in their
various attitudes that the work brought him much praise, as it still
does, from the craftsmen, who have learnt much from his labours. He was
also a great master of perspective, as is demonstrated by the buildings
painted in this work, which he executed at the commission of Cardinal
Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, by whom he was richly rewarded.

[Illustration: THE DEATH OF S. AUGUSTINE

(_After the fresco by =Benozzo Gozzoli=. San Gimigano: S. Agostino_)

Brogi]

But to return to Benozzo; wasted away at last by length of years and by
his labours, he went to his true rest, in the city of Pisa, at the age
of seventy-eight, while dwelling in a little house that he had bought in
Carraia di San Francesco during his long sojourn there. This house he
left at his death to his daughter; and, mourned by the whole city, he
was honourably buried in the Campo Santo, with the following epitaph,
which is still to be read there:

HIC TUMULUS EST BENOTII FLORENTINI, QUI PROXIME HAS PINXIT
HISTORIAS. HUNC SIBI PISANOR. DONAVIT HUMANITAS, MCCCCLXXVIII.

Benozzo ever lived the well-ordered life of a true Christian, spending
all his years in honourable labour. For this and for his good manner and
qualities he was long lo