Unpublished Documents Relating to the Ceppo Hospital at Pistoia

Abstract

My friend, Mr. Rufus G. Mather, has recently examined the books of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova with reference to the sculptural decoration of one of its dependencies, the Ceppo Hospital at Pistoia. The indefatigable Milanesi had already examined these records and, both in his Miscellanea and in the annotations to his edition of Vasari's Lives, made records of value, but the documents themselves remain unpublished. It is important, therefore, that these documents be published in historical sequence for the light they may shed on the history of these notable decorations.