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VINCENZO FOPPA<br />

25. <strong>Foppa</strong> deposits twenty-five gold ducats with Giovanni Antonio de Martis <strong>of</strong><br />

Varese, who promises to repay <strong>the</strong> same within six years from <strong>the</strong> coming Michaelmas.<br />

August 6,<br />

1474, Pavia.<br />

In domo . . . mei notarii ... in Parochia Sancte Marie in Pertica. . . .<br />

Johannes Antonius de Martis de Varixio, filius quondam domini Pauli, civis Papie . . .<br />

confitetur versus magistrum Vincentium de <strong>Foppa</strong>, pictorem, filium quondam Johannis<br />

ibi presentem . . . se ipsum Johannem Antonium ab eo magistro Vincencio . . .<br />

recepisse ducatos viginti quinque auri largos, . . . et hoc in deposito, custodia at<br />

guardia . . . Quas quidem pecunias dictus Johannes Antonius . . . restituere . . .<br />

promittit et convenit suprascripto magistro Vincentio . . . infra sex annos proxime<br />

futures et incepturos in festo Sancti Michaelis proxime future, etc. Et inde, etc.<br />

Presentibus egregio (arcium et) medicine doctore domino magistro Ma<strong>the</strong>o de . . .<br />

filio quondam Johannis, Vincentio de Subinago filio magistri Filipini et Aluisio de<br />

Rambosiis filio quondam domini Donati, inde testibus.<br />

Arch. Not. Pavia, Atti di Agostino Gravanago.<br />

Chap. VI, p. 140, note 2.<br />

26. Letter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Duke to <strong>Foppa</strong> commanding him to come to Pavia.<br />

May 22, 1475, Pavia.<br />

Dux Mediolani, etc. Magistro Vincentio de Fopa depinctori.<br />

Volendote nuy adoperare in alcune depincture, che volimo far fare, vogli, ricevuta<br />

questa, montare ad cavallo et venire qui da nuy, mossa ogni rasone. Papie, die 22<br />

Maii, 1475.<br />

Arch, di State Mil., Miss. Due, No. 123, 1475-76, f. 33.<br />

Caffi in Arch. Sfor. Lomb., 1878, p. 105.<br />

Chaps. IV, p. loi, and v, p. 114.<br />

The Duke <strong>of</strong> Milan, etc., to Master Vincentio de Fopa <strong>the</strong> painter. It being<br />

our wish to employ you in certain paintings which we desire to have executed, we command<br />

you on receipt <strong>of</strong> t<strong>his</strong> to mount your horse and come hi<strong>the</strong>r to us, putting aside all<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r engagements. Pavia, May 22, 1475.<br />

27. Protest <strong>of</strong> Dame Zaccarina Lonati Beccaria against <strong>the</strong> behaviour <strong>of</strong> <strong>Vincenzo</strong><br />

<strong>Foppa</strong> and <strong>the</strong> painters <strong>of</strong> <strong>his</strong> company, who had failed to execute <strong>the</strong> frescoes commissioned<br />

by her in <strong>the</strong> Church <strong>of</strong> S. Giacomo near Pavia within <strong>the</strong> time specified in<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir contract.<br />

August 5,<br />

1476, Pavia.<br />

In nomine Domini, amen. Anno nativitatis eiusdem millesimo quadringentesimo<br />

septuagesimo sexto,<br />

indictione nona, die quinto mensis augusti, hora none, in civitate<br />

Papie, videlicet in domo habitacionis infrascripte domine Zacharine, Porte Pallacensis,<br />

Parochie Sancti Quirici, Ibique, etc. Cum hoc sit quod magnifica domina Zacharina,<br />

relicta quondam magnifici militis domini Augustini de Becharia, dederit magistris

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