Michael Angelo Buonarroti / With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda

by Charles Holroyd

Milanese, Le Lettere, No. xcvii. p. 115.

Michael Angelo wrote a postscript to letter No. cxvi.: "Oh, cursed a thousand times the day and hour when I left Carrara! This is the cause of my utter ruin. But I shall go back there soon. Nowadays it is a sin to do one's duty."

Milanese. Ricordi, &c., p. 581.

Milanese. "Les Correspondants de Michel Ange," p. 24.

.Ibid. p. 24.

The letters of Vari are in the Buonarroti Archives, Cod. xi., No. 740-761; Symonds, vol. i. p. 362.

Le Lettere, No. ccclxxx., p. 423 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).

Le Lettere, No. xliv., p. 55 (in the British Museum).

Le Lettere, No. cccxc. p. 437. Milanese dates this letter August 8, 1524. Michael Angelo to Giovanni Spina; he signs it "at San Lorenzo."

Several are by the hand of Michael Angelo, but some are done in the mannered style of the architectural draughtsman of the period, and suggest a Florentine assistant.