Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors Architects of the Order of St. Dominic, Vol. 1 of 2
After perusing Father Marchese's work, and the many highly encomiastic notices bestowed on it by Reviewers and Ecclesiological writers, it occurred to me that I would be doing valuable service to Religion, Arts, and to the Monastic Institutions particularly, if I were to give an English version of the original Italian. Encouraged by various Prelates, Clergymen, Noblemen, Protestants as well as Catholics, and also by some of the most distinguished members of the Catholic Laity in England and Ireland, I laboured according to the best of my ability to produce the following pages; and completed the translation within the brief period of two months.
Whatever may be the merit or demerit of the rendering - no one will venture to assert, after having read the following pages, that they do not abound in facts, which must have the greatest interest for the Artist, as well as for the studious of Ecclesiastical History.
Apart from such considerations, it will be admitted that there never existed any period in which it was more incumbent on persons in my position, to exercise whatever ability they possess, in order to enlighten men's minds on the real nature of Catholic dogmas, practices, and Institutions, and to expose the calumnies which have been so unsparingly showered on the Religious Orders.
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