[24] In the same feeling, though of later date, a copy of Raffaele's speaking portrait of his Holiness, now in the Torlonia Gallery, and attributed to Giulio Romano, is inscribed, "The author of freedom, for the citizens he saved." This conquest became a triumph of art as well as of arms; the colossal statue of Julius, begun by Michael Angelo in Nov. 1506, was erected in February, 1508. It weighed 17,500 lb. of bronze, and cost about 12,000 golden ducats, of which 1000 went to the artist.
[25] See [ch. xxxiii.] of this work.
[26] See above, [ch. viii.], [ix.], [x.]
[*27] The following is a short bibliography of Il Cortegiano, and of works relating to it:—
- Salvadori, Il Cortegiano (Firenze, 1884).
- Cian, Il Cortegiano (Firenze, 1894).
- Opdycke, The Book of the Courtier (New York, 1901).
- Bottari, Studio su B.C. e il suo Libro (Pisa, 1874).
- Luzio e Renier, Mantova e Urbino (Torino, 1893).
- Cian, in Giornale Stor. d. Lett. It., vol. XV. fasc. 43 e 44.
- Cian, Un Codice ignoto di Rime volgari app. a B.C. in Giornale cit., vol. XXXIV., p. 297, XXXV., p. 53.
- Serassi, Lettere, 2 vols. (Padova, 1769-71).
- Renier, Notizia di Lettere ined. di B.C. (Torino, 1889).
- Mariello, La Cronologia del Cortegiano (Pisa, 1895).
- Joly, De B.C. opere cui titulus Il Cortegiano (Cadomi, 1856).
- Tobler, C. und sein Hofmann, in Schweizer Museum, 1884.
- Valmaggi, Per le fonti del Corteg., in Giornale cit., XIV., 72.
- Gerini, Gli scrittori pedagog. ital. d. Sec. XVI. (Torino, 1897), p. 43.
[*28] In the Lettera Dedicatoria. Cf. Ed. Cian, op. cit., p. 4.
[*29] This is the opening of the Lettera Dedicatoria to Don Michel de Silva, Bishop of Viseo.
[*30] Opening paragraph of first book. Ed. Cian, p. 11.
[*31] Concerning Elisabetta Gonzaga. Cf. Luzio e Renier, Mantova e Urbino, Isabella d'Este, ed Elisabetta Gonzaga (Torino, 1893).
[*32] This lady was the inseparable companion of the Duchess Elisabetta. She was the daughter of Mario Pio, of the Lords of Carpi. Early the widow of Antonio of Montefeltro, natural brother of Guidobaldo, she remained at Urbino. She died, as it seems, a true lady of the Renaissance. "Senza alcun sacramento di la chiesa, disputando una parte del Cortegiano col Conte Ludovico da Canosso." Cf. Rossi, Appunti per la storia della musica alla Corte d'Urbino, in Rassegna Emiliana, Ann. I. (fasc. VIII.), p. 456, n. 1.