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Chap. XI. CELLO. 299 Uccelli was seventy two years of age when he visited Urbino. In the following year he was unable to move. A placet is still in existence in which he declares to the Uffiziali of Florence (Aug. 9- 1469) that he is aged seventy three, that his wife Mona Tomasa di Benedetto Malifici is infirm, that his son Donato is sixteen years old, 4hat he, Paolo, is old, without means, and unable to work. 1 Uccelli probably died soon after this and was buried in S. M. Novella contrary to the clause of his early will which declared that he desired to be buried in S. Spirito. 2 His genuine works are not to be found in public galleries. 3 The name of Dello is connected with no existing works except those of the cloister in S. Maria Novella. We shall therefore proceed to notice them, prefacing the few remarks which they suggest by new* facts lately discovered by Dottore Gaetano Milanesi, and correcting with their assistance the slight and confused story of Vasari. 4 Dello was the son of Niccolo Delli a tailor and Orsa his wife, and was born about the year 1404 (the positive date of the event being confused by the contradictory statements of three different income tax returns, of 1427, 1430 and 1433). Vasari’s assertion that he was apprenticed to the double profession of painter and sculptor seems contradicted by the fact that the works in terra cotta which are assigned to him are proved to have been by Bicci di Lorenzo, but is con firmed by records at Sienna. 5 * * 8 Dello had hardly entered his 1 Gaye Carteggio. Vol. I. p. 147. 2 Ibid. Iticha states that he was buried in S. M. Novella. See Chiese FI or. Vol. III. p. 78. Vasari says Uccelli died in 1432. This may be a misprint for 1472. (Vol. III. p. 98.) 8 In one of the cabinets of the Munich Gallery (No. 557.) is a S. JeromeassignedtoUccelli, afeeble work of the time of Fra Filippo without sufficient character to jus tify the critic in assigning it to so good a master. A figure (life size) of Cardinal Niccola of Prato is catalogued under Uecelli’s name in the Gal leria Comunale at Prato (No. V.). This common production of the 15 th century is not by him, and can indeed only be a copy or adaptation from an older likeness of a cardinal who died early in the 14 th century. 4 The life of Dello is in Va sari. Vol. III. p. 46 and foil. The notices of Dottore G. Milanesi are in Giorn. Stor. ub. sup. anno 1862. p.p. 10—12. 25—29. 5 See antea. The works in question were in S. Maria Nuova
