[*215] Pinturicchio was also among them; neither can Signorelli be called a Florentine. Dennistoun is (infra) mistaken in thinking that Pinturicchio did not work in the Sixtine Chapel. The Baptism of Christ and the Journey of Moses are both from his hand.
[216] Vat. Urb. MSS. No. 1023.
[*217] Cf. L. Siena, Storia di Sinigaglia (Sinigaglia, 1764), p. 277 et seq.; Anselmi e Mancini, Bibliografia Sinigagliese (Sinigaglia, 1905); and Marcucci, Francesco Maria I. della Rovere, Parte I. (1490-1527) (Sinigaglia, 1903).
[*218] The best contemporary account of Djem is that of Guglielmo Caoursin, Obsidimis Rhodii Urbis Descriptio (Ulm, 1496). Cf. Burchard (ed. Thuasne), I., p. 528. The amount seems to have been 45,000 ducats. See especially Heidenheimer, Korrespondenz Bajazet II.'s mit Alexander VI., in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, vol. V., p. 511 et seq. As usual, Creighton's account, op. cit., vol. IV., is most excellent, written with the pen of a statesman. Heidenheimer maintains the authenticity of the letters, and Creighton agrees with him. "If the letters were forged, the forgery was the work of Giovanni della Rovere," but there is no good ground for questioning their genuineness.
[219] These papers have been printed in Bossi's Italian translation of Roscoe's Leo X., vol. IV., p. 220; but our extracts were made from a MS. in Vat. Ottobon, Lib. No. 2206, f. 17.
[220] Lettere de' Principi, II., 4.
[221] Molini Documenti di Storia Italiana, I., 23.
[222] Lettere Pittoriche, VIII., p. 23.
[223] In the Belvidere, where his frescoes have unfortunately perished.
[224] Panvinio tells us that, being received in full consistory on his arrival in Rome, he refused to kiss the Pope's toe, but only his knee.