Buono, Bartolomeo a reputable Italian architect and sculptor, was born at Bergamo about 1450. In 1495 he erected the Church of San Roch at Venice. In 1510 he restored, with great skill, the upper part of the grand campanile of St. Mark. As a sculptor, he executed the fine statue of St. Roch, in the church of that saint, and three small statues which adorn the great altar of the Church of San Geminiano. He died in 1529. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More