. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. bonus f.ventus. (Fresco in the Camera ch San Paolo at Parma.) CHAPTER IIICORREGGIOS MASTERS ARTISTS IN CORREGGIO—FRANCESCA OF BRANDENBURGS PALACE—LORENZO ALLEGRIAND FRANCESCO BIANCHI-FERRARI—THE FERRARESE SCHOOL OF PAINTING. ALL that biographers havewritten concerning theliterary education of theyouthful Antonio is purely ima-ginary. The good handwritingand excellent spelling of hisautograph letters are sufficientevidence that his father hadearly entrusted him to somecareful master. But here ourknowledge ceases. Pungileoni wa
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. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. bonus f.ventus. (Fresco in the Camera ch San Paolo at Parma.) CHAPTER IIICORREGGIOS MASTERS ARTISTS IN CORREGGIO—FRANCESCA OF BRANDENBURGS PALACE—LORENZO ALLEGRIAND FRANCESCO BIANCHI-FERRARI—THE FERRARESE SCHOOL OF PAINTING. ALL that biographers havewritten concerning theliterary education of theyouthful Antonio is purely ima-ginary. The good handwritingand excellent spelling of hisautograph letters are sufficientevidence that his father hadearly entrusted him to somecareful master. But here ourknowledge ceases. Pungileoni wassimply drawing on his powers ofinvention when he said : Gio-vanni Berni of Piacenza was thefirst person to instruct him inthe elements of letters and Battista Marastoni of Modena was his. putti. (Fresco in the Camera di San Paolo at Parma.) 38 ANTONIO DA CORRRGGIO guide to the retreats of the Muses and of eloquence. The discoverythat these two masters were living at Correggio about the year 1500was sufficient ground for the fabrication of this statement, which restson no better foundation than the kindred assertion that at a laterdate our painter : sought to enrich his mind by the study ofphilosophy, his instructor being the physician, Gian Battista Lom-bardi.1 If we further accept the statement of some that Correggiowas also a student of mathematical science, we must believe ourpainter to have been a striking example of universal aptitudes ! But, unluckily, there are others who declare that he had no inclinationfor such studies, and that feeling himself strongly drawn towards art, he allowed his parents to grumble as they pleased at his neglect ofother learning.2 During his boyhood Correggio had many opportunities of meetingartists in his native place, and witnessed the