[166] Pini, Scrittura d’Artisti. Cf. A. v. Zahn, Jahrbücher für Kunstwissenschaft, iv. 367.
[167] Vasari, Life of Giuliano, iv. 1 seq. Gaye, l. c. in annis 1478, 1480, 1481.
[168] A. Rossi, in the Giornale di erudiz. artist., 1872, p. 97. Inscription: ‘Opus Juliani Maiani et Dominici Taxi, Florentini, mcccclxxxxi.’
[169] C. Milanesi, in the Giorn. stor. degli Arch. Tosc., iii. 233, 234. Letters dated Rome, February 1-20, 1478. In consequence of the Cardinal’s death in the summer of 1479, the building remained unfinished.
[170] Urbino, June 18, 1481. Gaye, l. c. p. 274.
[171] S. Volpicelli, Descrizione storica di alcuni principali edificii della città di Napoli (Naples 1850), p. 1 seq.
[172] Gaye, l. c. p. 300 (undated).
[173] Vita di Fil. Strozzi il vecchio, p. 22 seq. (Cf. i. 395.) Cf. also, Gaye, l. c. p. 354 seq., where are also notices by Luca Landucci, an apothecary, on the beginning and progress of the work, and Filippo’s will. Vasari treats at length of the palace and of the smith Caparri in his Life of Cronaca, viii. 116 seq.
[174] Gaye, l. c. ibid. A letter from Lorenzo, December 16, 1490, to Francesco Gonzaga, in which he asks for leave of absence for Luca Fancelli. Whether the latter went to Naples is uncertain; Francesco di Giorgio was there for some time between February and May 1491.
[175] Among Sangallo’s drawings in the Barberiniana at Rome. Gaye, l. c. p. 301. Vasari, vii. 212, 213.