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figures in the Sacristy did not interest him, and on his way up the stairs, he chanced to look out of а windowапd caught sight of Brunelleschi's dome. "\Vhen the dull ecclesiastic began to say that this dome did поt merit the admiration which it raised, the exaspcгated Tasso, who ,vas loyal to his friends, coнld stand по тоге. Il Lasca recounts wl1at happened: " Pulling the abbot back,vaгd with fol'ce, he made Ыш tumЫe do,vп the staircase, and he took good са1·е to fall himself on top of him, апd calling out that t.he f1·ater l1ad been taken mad, he boнnd his arшs and legs ,vith coгds . . . апd then taking him, haпgiвg оvег bls slюuldeгs, he ca1тied him to а room ncar, stгetched him on tl1e ground, and left him there in the dark, takiпg away tl1e key." ,ve will hope that if Tasso himsclf ,vas too ргове to criticisш, he шау have learпed а lesson fгom tbls didactic monastic, and was шоге tolerant iп the futшe. Of the work of Canozio, а worker of about the same time, Matteo Colaccio iп 1486, writes, "In visiting these intarsiad figures I was so mucl1 taken ,vith the ex­ quisiteness of the ,voгk that I could поt withold myself from praising the authoг to hcaven ! " Не гefers thus ecstatically to the Stalls at St. Antonio at Padua, which were inlaid Ьу Canozio, assisted Ьу other masters. Fo1· his work in the Chнrch of St. Domenico in Reggio, the contract called for some curious observances: he was boнnd Ьу this to buy material for fifty lire, to work one third of the whole нпdertaking fo1· fifty lire, to еаrв another fifty lire fог cach succeeding third, and then