STEFANO DE LA, an eminent engraver, born at Florence A.D. 1610. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith; but some prints of Callot having accidentally fallen into his hands, he was seized with a passion for engraving; and studied the art under Canta Gallina, who had also been the instructor of Callot. De la Bella at first imitated the manner of Callot; but afterwards adopted one entirely his own, which in freedom and spirit is said even to have surpassed that of his fellow-disciple. In 1642 he went to Paris, where Cardinal Richelieu engaged him to go to Arras and make drawings of the siege and taking of that town by the royal army. After residing a considerable time at Paris, he returned to Florence, where he obtained a pension from the grand duke, whose son, Prince Cosmo, he instructed in the art of design. He died in 1664.