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Chapter 13658 Romano, in accordance with Castiglione’s will of 1523. It should be noted that the same church housed the tomb of Jacopo Strada’s granduncle.49 – An inscription which was not realized or has disappeared, intended as an epitaph for the funerary chapel of some ‘Benefactor of the Holy Blood’, and which in the codex is attributed to the Mantuan court poet Benedetto Lampridio [fol. 25v]. It can be linked to the chapel of Isabella Boschetto in Sant’Andrea, in which were buried the remains of Saint Longinus: the drops of Christ’s blood caught up by this Roman soldier at the Crucifixion constituted Mantua’s most precious relic. The decoration of the chapel was commissioned by Federigo Gonzaga in 1531 and executed by Giulio Romano in about 1532–1534.50 – An Italian summary of Appianus’ description of the triumph of Scipio [fol. 97], probably drafted in connection with Giulio’s designs of the cartoons of a cycle of tapestries of that subject, a commission from Francis i of France, work on which probably began in about 1533. It closely corresponds to Giulio’s modelli for the series now in the Louvre.51 49 Above, Chapter 1; on Castiglione’s tomb, see Cian 1942; Laskin 1967;Howard Burns and Pier Nicola Pagliara, ‘La Capella Castiglioni’, in Giulio Romano 1989, pp. 532–534. 50 Bacou/Béguin 1983, cat. nr. P3, pp. 123–126; Hartt 1958, i, pp. 208–211; Juřen, 1986, p. 136; Giuseppe Pecorari, ‘Le commissioni artistiche della famiglia Boschetti’, in Giulio Romano 1989, pp. 442–445. 51 Hartt 1958, i, p. 227–231; Jestaz/ Bacou 1974; Juřen 1986, pp. 112–117 and 176–177; Nello Forti Grazzini, ‘Arazzi’, in Giulio Romano 1989, pp. 466–479. Figures 13.38–13.40 Codex Chlumczansky, fol. 3v.: anonymous design for a fountain; fol. 5r.: anonymous, documentary drawing of the tomb of Petrarch at Arquà Petrarca and its inscriptions; fol. 12v., top: transcription of a classical inscription (original album); bottom: addition, transcription of the epitaph for the tomb of Baldassare Castiglione in Santa Maria delle Grazie near Mantua.