Under his thick, damp hair his eyes shone with quiet celestial joy, and the fleshless face, the colour of ivory, wore that expression of occult spirituality which flowed from the brushes of the quattrocento.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
Giles passed by as a Florentine noble of the late quattrocento, in a black silk robe that muffled his slight indifference to a function familiar from many repetitions.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
Those charming episodes and accidents of fancy, in which the Gothic style and the style of the earlier Lombard Renaissance abounded, are wholly wanting to the rigid, mathematical, hard-headed genius of the Florentine quattrocento.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds