Identifier: antonioallegrida00ricc (find matches)
Title: Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934
Subjects: Correggio, 1489?-1534
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of 1532, and in the first months of 1533, he actedas witness to several law documents. In September of the same yearhe bought a piece of land.2 Finally, on January 24, 1534, he witnessedthe marriage settlement of Chiara da Correggio, who was about tobecome the wife of a son of Veronica Gambara.3 No doubt he wasoccasionally absent from Correggio in the intervals, either to look afterhis interests in Parma, or to visit Modena, for which city he waspainting the altar-piece of St. Peter Martyr, or on similar errands. Allwe contend is that Correggio was his home during the last three yearsof his life, and that there he brought his young children to placethem under the care of their grandparents. He had now many tiesthere, his original possessions having considerably increased. He 1 Pungileoni, ii. p. 231. 2 M. A. Mignaty, p. 393. Pungileoni, ii. pp. 250-251. 3 Pungileoni, i. p. 247 ; ii. p. 251. 3o8 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO found solace in the affectionate friendship of the ruling family, and
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THE EDUCATION OF CUPID, BY CORREGGIO. In the National Gallery. more especially in the kindness of Veronica Gambara, and it seemsmore than probable that he was also detained by some premonition of THE SPANISH ARMY AT CORREGGIO 309 coming- disaster, in which he would need the care of his family, andthe benefit of his native air. Nearly three years passed away thus, during which he spent manyquiet and happy hours, occupied with his work and family affairs. Thehistory of the state, meanwhile, was not so uneventful. Indeed, thevicissitudes through which the little city passed in this short space oftime were strangely important and dramatic, taking into account thenarrow limits of the stage.1 In May, 1531, much excitement was caused in the Allegri familyby the strange death of Paolo Brunorios wife. She had been livingquietly in Modena ; her husband suddenly brought her to Correggio,and there abandoned her, retiring himself to Roccabianca. A rapidand mysterious malady attacked the poor woman

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