When he was dying his relations affected great concern in the hope of inheriting a farm at Prato, but he told them that he had left it to the peasant who had always toiled there, and he would not alter his will.
The Donatello collection in the Bargello has been made representative by the addition of casts.

The originals number ten: there is also a cast of the equestrian statue of Gattemalata at Padua, which is, I suppose, next to Verrocchio's Bartolommeo Colleoni at Venice, the finest equestrian statue that exists; heads from various collections, including M.Dreyfus' in Paris, although Dr.Bode now gives that charming example to Donatello's pupil Desiderio; and various other masterpieces elsewhere.

But it is the originals that chiefly interest us, and first of these in bronze is the David, of which I have already spoken, and first of these in marble the S.George.

This George is just such a resolute, clean, warlike idealist as one dreams him.

He would kill a dragon, it is true; but he would eat and sleep after it and tell the story modestly and not without humour.