Chap. XII. LOKENZO DI CREDI. 403 CHAPTER XII. LORENZO DI CREDL The review of Umbrian and Siennese art in the fif teenth and sixteenth centuries has proved how much was due to the example of Florence. The progress of the Florentines themselves now courts attention. We have seen Verrocchio concentrate in his own person all the gifts of the sculptor, the painter, and the scientific draughtsman, and conduct the education of Leonardo, Pe- rugino, and Lorenzo di Credi. Our next step shall he, not to dwell upon the life of da Vinci, which might lead to digressions on the schools of Lombardy, but to sketch that of Credi, who was more constantly connected with the fortunes of his native city. A diary, curious for its age as well as for the infor mation it contains respecting the habits of a small landed proprietor of Florence in the rise of the fifteenth cen tury, is preserved in the Riccardiana of Florence. It narrates the squabbles and litigation of two farmers; it registers the results of an average year in the purchase of land, the sale of oil and agricultural produce, those of an unsuccessful season, where the- landlord is reduced to pawn his “silk lined coat.” It gives the prices of various articles in household use between the years 1405 and 1425. The writer of the diary is Oderigo 1 the grand- 1 The diary of Oderigo di Credi 1 vioStorico, first series, ub. sup. Vol. has been published in the Arclii- | IV. 2G*