FOOTNOTES:

[1] E. Armstrong, M.A., Lorenzo de' Medici, p. 437. B. Berenson, The Study and Criticism of Italian Art. Second series. "A Word for Renaissance Churches."

[2] The quarries of serpentine (verde di Prato) near Prato have been worked from a very early period. Their present output is valued at £1,000 per annum.—From The British Diplomatic and Consular Report, No. 570, 1901.

[3] References Consular Report on Commerce and Manufacture in Italy, vol. xlv. The Nation, No. 1105. E. S. Morgan, Time, vol. xiv.

[4] See Cruttwell's Luca and Andrea Della Robbia, chapter vii.

[5] Francis A. Hyett, B.A., Florence, p. 104.

[6] J. A. Symonds, Age of Despots, p. 87.

[7] Francis A. Hyett, B.A., Florence, p. 106.

[8] See Symonds' Essay in Sketches and Studies, vol. i., p. 173.