Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1905 — Correggio and His Life. [ARTICLE]

Correggio and His Life.

Little Is known of Correggio, which would argue that be was of a retiring disposition. He was born in the little town of Correggio, twenty-four miles from Farma. In the latter city be was educated, but in Lis seventeenth year an outbreak of the plague drove his family to Mantua. By 1514 he was back In Parma. For some years be worked here and painted many famous pictures. It may have been because of grief over the death of his young wife, but at the age of thirty-six, indifferent to fame and fortune, he retired to the little town where he was bora. All that is known regarding his death is the date, March 5, 1534.—Charles H. Caffin in St- Nicholas.