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Hyrtl, in his "Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie," quotes some of them, Bartholomæus de Varignana, Gentilis de Fulgineis, Jacobus de Partibus, Didacus Lopez, Jacobus de Forlivio, Ugo Senesis, Dinus de Garbo, Matthæus de Gradibus, Nicolaus Leonicenus, Thaddæus Florentinus, Galeatus de Sancta Sophia.
It is specially recorded in the Chronicle that this abbot took advantage of the poverty of an abbey in Normandy, the district having been afflicted with a grievous famine, and purchased from it the body of S. Florentinus, with the exception of the head, for one hundred pounds of silver. He was nephew to Leofric, Earl of Coventry.
The learned bibliophile and librarian of Florence, Magliabecchi, who died in 1714, devised for his library of thirty thousand volumes, which he bequeathed to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a book-plate representing his own profile on a medal surrounded with books and oak boughs, with the inscription "Antonius Magliabecchius Florentinus." Some book-plates embody designs of great beauty.
Thus, then, he gave way before envy, and lived in honour at the Court of that King; and he died at the age of forty-nine, and was given honourable burial by the same man, with this epitaph: DELLUS EQUES FLORENTINUS PICTURÆ ARTE PERCELEBRIS REGISQUE HISPANIARUM LIBERALITATE ET ORNAMENTIS AMPLISSIMUS. H. S. E. S. T. T. L.
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