Location: Roma, Pantheon
Sub-Location: Tomba di Raffaello

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Type:Later record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: Published by F. Canuti, Il Perugino, Siena, 1931, vol.2, p. 148 (previously in W. Braghirolli, Notizie e documenti inediti intorno a Pietro Vannucci detto il Perugino, in Giornale d' Erudizione artistica, 1873, vol. 2,p. 143). (The second part of the document was published for the first time by Canuti)

Pietro Bembo's epitaph for Raphael on his tomb in the Pantheon.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: *.1520
DOM RAPHAELI. SANCTIO. IOANN. F. VRBINAT PICTORI. EMINENTISS. VETERVMQ. AEMVLO CVIVS. SPIRANTEIS PROPE. IMAGINES. SI CONTEMPLERE. NATVRAE. ATQVE. ARTIS. FOEDVS FACILE. INSPEXERIS IVLII. II. ET. LEONIS. X. PONTT. MAXX. PICTVRAE ET. ARCHITECT. OPERIBVS. GLORIAM. AVXIT .V. A. XXXVII INTEGER. INTEGROS QVO. DIE. NATVS. EST. EO. ESSE. DESIIT VIII. ID. APRIL. MD.XX. ILLE. HIC. EST. RAPHAEL. TIMVIT. QVO. SOSPITE. VINCI RERVM MAGNA PARENS ET MORIENTE MORI.