[89] Pastor, vi. p. 201. There appears to be absolutely no foundation for the aspersions made by Gregorovius and other writers upon the moral character of this really admirable personage. Cf. op. cit., p. 199 (note).
[90] Nuovi Documenti, pp. 362, 364-368, 560.
[91] The bas-relief of St John Evangelist, over the altar to the right of the entrance, is the mediocre work of some sculptor of the Quattrocento, possibly Urbano da Cortona.
[92] See the document in Milanesi, Vasari III., pp. 519-522.
[93] Cf. G. W. Kitchin, Pope Pius II., p. 36.
[94] Historia Friderici III. Imp., p. 73.
[95] See Misc. Storica Senese, iv. 7-8.
[96] The question is well discussed in Miss E. March Phillipps’ monograph on Pinturicchio, pp. 116-123.
[97] Anonymous Chronicle existing in the Archivio di Stato and the Biblioteca Comunale, quoted by Lisini, Notizie di Duccio, p. 5.
[98] Berenson, Central Italian Painters, p. 117.