Fra Giovanni was buried by his fellow-friars in the Minerva in Rome,
near the lateral door beside the sacristy, in a round tomb of marble,
with himself, portrayed from nature, lying thereon. The following
epitaph may be read, carved in the marble:

NON MIHI SIT LAUDI, QUOD ERAM VELUT ALTER APELLES,
SED QUOD LUCRA TUIS OMNIA, CHRISTE, DABAM;
ALTERA NAM TERRIS OPERA EXTANT, ALTERA C[OE]LO.
URBS ME JOANNEM FLOS TULIT ETRURIAE.

In S. Maria del Fiore are two very large books illuminated divinely well
by the hand of Fra Giovanni, which are held in great veneration and
richly adorned, nor are they ever seen save on days of the highest
solemnity.

A celebrated and famous illuminator at the same time as Fra Giovanni was
one Attavante, a Florentine, of whom I know no other name. This man,
among many other works, illuminated a Silius Italicus, which is now in
S. Giovanni e Polo in Venice; of which work I will not withhold certain
particulars, both because they are worthy of the attention of craftsmen,
and because, to my knowledge, no other work by this master is to be
found; nor should I know even of this one, had it not been for the
affection borne to these noble arts by the Very Reverend Maestro Cosimo
Bartoli, a gentleman of Florence, who gave me information about it, to
the end that the talent of Attavante might not remain, as it were,
buried out of sight.

In the said book, then, the figure of Silius has on the head a helmet
with a crest of gold and a chaplet of laurel; he is wearing a blue
cuirass picked out with gold in the ancient manner, while he is holding
a book in his right hand, and the left he has on a short sword. Over the
cuirass he has a red chlamys, fastened in front with a knot, and fringed
with gold, which hangs down from his shoulders. The inside of this
chlamys is seen to be of changing colours and embroidered with gold. His
buskins are yellow, and he is standing on his right foot in a niche. The
next figure in this work represents Scipio Africanus. He is wearing a
yellow cuirass, and his sword-belt and sleeves, which are blue in
colour, are all embroidered with gold. On his head he has a helmet with
two little wings and a fish by way of crest. The young man's countenance
is fair and very beautiful; and he is raising his right arm proudly,
holding in that hand a naked sword, while in the left hand he has the
scabbard, which is red and embroidered with gold. The hose are green in
colour