FOOTNOTES:
She left him the riband from her hair.
They show at Verona, as the tomb of Juliet, an empty trough of stone.
These famous statues recline in the Sagrestia Nuova, on the tombs of Giuliano de’ Medici, third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and Lorenzo of Urbino, his grandson. Strozzi’s epigram on the Night, with Michel Angelo’s rejoinder, is well known.
This mocking task was set by Pietro, the unworthy successor of Lorenzo the Magnificent.