Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, founder of the Lombard school, his life ...

APPENDIX II, A 333
Item per lo anno finite adi primo aprile 1519 . . .
I.4 s. 15.
.. )i ., 1520
)> i> ji II 1521
M M M >) 1522
)> M M 1) '5^3
Nota quod de suprascriptis bonis investitus fuit M. Paulus de Caylina pictor, ut
apparet in isto f. 71.
Total of Vincenzo Foppa's payments ...... I.104 s. 10.
Archiv. di S. Alessandro, Brescia. Libro dei Livellarii, A. f. 2 v. (Quadra Mastro Cassa,
1502-23, Masseria I".)
Burlington, p. 107 and foil.
Chap. IX, p. 223. See illustration, p. 222.
Master Vincenzo Foppa [blank], the excellent painter who now possesses what
was once owned by the late Ser Matteo son of the late Ser Cristoforo Caccia, chemist, is
to pay to the quarter every year on the ist of April as " livello " for a perpetual lease of
a house, walled and tiled, with a stable lately built, and where the above-named Master
Vincenzo now lives, situated in the contrada porta nuova looking to the street on the
east [blank] four lire fifteen soldi every year on April ist as already stated and as
appears in Book A, f. 36, and this is for the past year 1502, namely, four lire and fifteen
soldi, that is I.4 s. 15. Item for the full year I.4 s. 15 up to April ist, 1503, etc.
Be it noted that the successor to the above-named possessions was Master Paolo
Caylina the painter, as appears in this volume on f. 71.
73. Payments by the heirs of Ser Venturino de Sali, and particulars relating to the
garden of Vincenzo Foppa and to the position of his house.
1502, Brescia.
Ser Venturino da Sali overo adeso li soy Heredi d^ dar . . . per lo livello . . . de
una casa . . . che zase ... in la cita de Bressa in la contrada de Porta nova dove
soleva essere la torre o vero forteza de porta nova de la citadella vegia de Bressa a la
qual e choerentii amonte et a doman la strada, a mezo di lo orto de maystro Cristoforo
di Cazii, o vero adesso de maystro Vincenzo depintor el
universita.
qual orto have cason de ditta
Arch. S. Alessandro, Libro dei Livellarii, f. i.
Chap. IX, pp. 224, 225.
Ser Venturino Sali, or rather his heirs, are debtors to the quarter ... for the
" livello" ... of a house . . . situated ... in the Contrada Porta nuova in the City of
Brescia where the tower or fort of the new gate of the old citadel of Brescia once stood,
which house is bordered by the street on the north and east ; to the south is the garden
of Master Cristoforo Caccia, or rather now of Master Vincenzo the painter, for which
garden a " livello" has to be paid to the quarter.