[222] Vasari, iv. 105; v. 60, 83; vi. 167; xi. 286.
[223] xii. 11. Cf. Life of Torrigiano, vii. 204, and of Michel Angelo, xii. 157.
[224] The old tradition which has come down to our own days, which derives the Buonarotti Simoni from the Counts of Canossa (and which was believed in the family itself in Michelangelo’s days, as must be concluded from Ascanio Condivi’s words in his biography, published during the artist’s lifetime), rests on no historical foundation. Cf. G. Campori, Catalogo degli artisti sc. negli Stati Estensi (Modena 1855), p. 100 et seq. The noble family of Buonarotti has of late years become extinct in Florence. Lodovico, Michelangelo’s father, was already connected with the Medici when holding an official post in the Casentino, where his son was born within view of the great mountain of Alvernia—the crudo sasso of the Divine Comedy.
[225] G. Milanesi, Documenti inediti riguardanti Leonardo da Vinci, in the Arch. stor. Ital., ser. iii. xvi. 219.
[226] Ant. Montecatino to Ercole d’Este (Flor., December 17, 1482), in Cappelli, l. c. p. 265.
[227] Provisioni della Republica fiorentina dei 10 e 19 Aprile 1480, per la formazione dell’ordine dei Settanta, in the Appendix to Jacopo Pitti, l. c. p. 313 et seq., with Gino Capponi’s introduction. Cf. Cambia, l. c. ii. 1 et seq., for the names of the Signori, the colleges, the original thirty and the two hundred and ten citizens entrusted with the election business. A. Rinuccini, Ricordi, p. cxxi. et seq.; J. Pitti, p. 25; Fr. Guicciardini, p. 61.
[228] Cf. ante, vol. i. bk. ii. ch. 4.
[229] L. c. p. 174.
[230] Ricordi, l. c. p. cxxxv.
[231] Canestrini, l. c. p. 237 et seq.