[186] Gaye, l. c. p. 254.
[187] There is great confusion in Vasari, viii. 115, et seq. The commentary begins its continuous dates only in 1495, chiefly from Gaye.
[188] Moreni, Contorni di Firenze, v. 6, et seq. The chronology here is very confused; it is no better in Moisè’s Sta. Croce, p. 90. The bells of San Marco were hung in the belfry in 1498.
[189] Diary of Luca Landini, in Vasari, l. c. p. 121.
[190] Fr. Albertini, l. c., p. 442.
[191] Cf. A. v. Zahn’s Jahrbücher, vi. p. 136.
[192] Florence, February 13, 1498, in Gaye, l. c., p. 340.
[193] The monument of Sixtus IV. was finished in 1493 for Card. Giuliano della Rovere (Julius II.). That of Innocent VIII. must not be judged from its present mutilated condition.
[194] Monuments sépulcraux, plate iv. Inscription (by Poliziano):
ILLE EGO SUM PER QUEM PICTURA EXTINCTA REVIXIT
CUI QUAM RECTA MANUS TAM FUIT ET FACILIS
NATURÆ DEERAT NOSTRÆ QUOD DEFUIT ARTI
PLUS LICUIT NULLI PINGERE NEC MELIUS
MIRARIS TURREM EGREGIAM SACRO ÆRE SONANTEM
HÆC QUOQUE DE MODULO CREVIT AD ASTRA MEO
DENIQUE SUM IOCTUS QUID OPUS FUIT ILLA REFERRE
HOC NOMEN LONGI CARMINIS INSTAR ERAT
OB. AN. MCCCXXXVI. CIVES POS. B. M. MCCCCLXXXX.