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Riposo, where he was tended with the most affectionate care. Seven months afterwards, on 13th August, 1608, Jean Bologne died at his own house of the Borgo and was buried in the Chapel del Soccorso in the Church of the Annunziata in a tomb which he had erected behind the choir. The following epitaph was afterwards inscribed on the monument: Giovanni Bologna, Belgian noble, protege of the Princes of Medici, Knight of the Order of Christ's Militia, celebrated as architect and sculptor, remarkable for his virtue, his life and petty, erected this chapel to God, and this sepulcher for himself and for the Belgians who practice his art, in the year of our Lord, 1599." This great artist shines in the first rank of the pleiad of celebrated Italian sculptors of the Renaissance; he alone can be said to have been the successor of Michael Angelo, the heir to his genius and the last eminent master of the sixteenth century. _____________________ Vide: BODE, WILHELM: The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, Vol. III. London, 1909. BOUCHAUD, P. DE: Jean de Bologne. Paris, 1906. CCICOGNARA, CONTE LEOPOLDO: Storia della Scultura. Prato, 1825. DESIARDINS, ABEL: La Vie et l'CEuvre de jean Bologne. Paris, 1883. DUTHILLCEUL, H.R.: Eloge de jean de Bologne. Douai, n.d. FREEMAN, L. J.: Italian Sculpture of the Renaissance. New York, 1901. PATRIZI, P.: Il Giambologna. Mailand, 1905. PERKINS, CHARLES C.: Tuscan Sculptors; their lives, works, and times. Vol. II. London, 1864. REYMOND, MARCEL: La Sculpture Florentine. Florence, 1900. VASARI, GIORGIO: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters and Sculptors. Translated by Gaston de C. de Vere. Vol. VII. London, 1912. YRIARTE, CHARLES: Florence. Paris, 1881.