Verocchio alone produced nothing so truly magnificent.

This joint creation of Florentine science and Venetian fervour is one of the most precious monuments of the Renaissance.

From it we learn what the men who fought the bloodless battles of the commonwealths, and who aspired to principality, were like.
"He was tall," writes a biographer of Colleoni,[94] "of erect and well-knit figure, and of well-proportioned limbs.

His complexion tended rather to brown, marked withal by bright and sanguine flesh-tints.

He had black eyes; their brilliancy was vivid, their gaze terrible and penetrating.