[170] Nos. 585 and 758.
[171] "Life of Henry VII.," ed. 1825, iii. 417.
[172] See Westmacott's lectures on Sculpture, II. III., Athenæum, 1858.
[173] 2nd Comm. Vasari, I. xxx.
[174] Letter of 1739, p. 186.
[175] 17, viii. 1549, Antonio Doni, printed in Bottari, iii. 341.
[176] These dialogues will be found at great length in Borghini, Vasari, Leonardo da Vinci, Alberti, &c. Castiglione also devotes a canto of the "Cortegiano" to the subject.
[177] Gotti, "Vita," i. 66.
[178] Rumour was very severe. "Elle m'a pour toujours dégoûte de la pénitence," sighed Des Brosses. This inimitable person was the critic who, after visiting the Arena chapel at Padua, observed that nowadays one would scarcely employ Giotto to paint a tennis-court.
[179] Richa, III., xxxiii.