[432] Vasari, Life of Giuliano, vii. 213.
[433] Gaye, l. c. p. 304.
[434] Cf. ante, p. 228. The earlier appearance of the square may be seen in Richa, vii. 113.
[435] Kervyn de Lettenhove, ii. 279.
[436] Description of ‘Ambra mei Laurentis amor’ in the third Sylva, lines 594 et seq.; Prose volgari, p, 365. G. Fargioni Fozzetti, Viaggi per la Toscana (Flor. 1773 et seq.), v. 56 et seq., where also is Verino’s letter. Cf. ante, p. 13.
[437] Repetti, l. c. i. 380. Palla Strozzi paid 7,390 gold florins for Poggio a Cajano; and his beautiful villa of Petraja, which he had bought of the Brunelleschi, served as security for the purchase. In the next century, after the attempt of the Strozzi and their friends against Duke Cosimo had failed, Petraja was confiscated and became state property. Angiullesi’s Notizie storiche dei palazzi e ville appartenenti alla R. Corona di Toscana (Pisa, 1815) contain no notice of the earlier history of Poggio a Cajano.
[438] Vasari, Life of Sarto, viii. 276; of Franciabigo, ix. 101; of Pontormo, xi. 46. The compositions of the former are engraved in the work on the frescoes of the grand-ducal palaces (Flor. 1751).
[439] A. Condivi, in the biography prefixed to the Rime e lettere di M. A. Buonarotti (Flor. 1858), p. 26.
[440] Bandini, Specimen, ii. 105 et seq. The names of the two Greeks sound like noms de guerre.
[441] Borghini, l. c. ii. 167.