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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by E. Alberi, “Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato”, Ser. 2, III, Florence 1846, p. 109; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 748-49.
Notes: Shearman followed Alberi's transcription.

The Venetian ambassador describes the Pantheon, and Raphael's tomb in particular.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: *.4.1523
[...] [il Pantheon]: intorno tutta piena d’altari, tra i quali uno si lavora di serpentini, porfidi e marmi, che sarà molto bello; ed è la sepoltura di Raffaello da Urbino. [...]