"Pasti, Matteo de' (Ital.). Medallist, Sculptor, Painter and Architect of the fifteenth century. He was born at Verona, circa 1420, and died about 1490. His father was the Magister Andrea da Verona. He appears to have received a careful education, and was not only a distinguished humanist but also a clever orator. The first mention of his name occurs in 1441, in which year he was residing at Venice and wrote to Pietro de' Medici, son of Cosmo the elder, and father of Lorenzo the Magnificent. In 1444 we meet him at Ferrara with his teacher, Pisano. There he executed "the portrait - so characteristic in its ugliness - of the tutor of princes, the renowned Greek scholar Guarino, then in his seventy-fifth year, and like himself a native of Verona". In the following year, the artist accompanied Pisano to the Court of Sigismondo Malatesta at Rimini, and remained there until 1483, when he returned to his native city. His reputation spread as far as Constantinople, whither he was summoned by the Sultan Mohammed II. ad se pingendum effingendumque but he did not get further than Cania. At Rimini he superintended the building of the Temple of Fame of Malatesta, designed by Leone Battista Alberti, of San Francesco." - Leonhard Forrer, Bd. 4, London 1909, S. 403-404
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