My soul, praise the Lord! I will praise the Lord so long as I have my being; I will yet sing praises unto my God.
Two days hence, Fra Benedetto and I go to Florence. I desire, with the blessing of this my second father, to enter as novice in the Convent of San Marco, under the guidance of the holy and elect Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Here ends the diary of Giovanni Boltraffio.
BOOK VII
THE BONFIRE OF VANITIES—1496
'Dov' è più sentimento, li è più, ne' martiri, gran martire.'
Leonardo da Vinci.(He who feels most, is the greatest of the martyrs.)
'A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.'
St. James i. 8.