[249] A magnificent pair of triangular fonts in the same collection brought at the sale 168l.
[250] The ancestors of Giorgio Vasari were surnamed from their occupation of vase-makers (vasari), at Arezzo. The Ginori establishment near Florence is comparatively modern.
[251] Pungileoni quotes a demand made in 1683 of 50 scudi (about 11l.) for a plate reputed to have been painted by Raffaele; this, at thrice the present money value, would give 32l. as its price.
[252] Sanuto Diarii MSS. Bib. Marciana, xlv. f. 132.
[253] This letter, though inaccurate in several details, the author writing at a distance from the events, affords curious evidence of the consternation generally occasioned by the sack of Rome.
[254] Vat. Ottob. MSS. No. 2607.
[255] As a specimen of the very loose diction even of public despatches in this age, and of the obstacles which a translator has to encounter, we shall render literally the next sentence, or rather half page, sentences not being divided in the original. "And so the fourth day of the present month of May, which was Saturday, the foresaid army made his lodgment at seven miles from Rome, in a place which is called the Isle; Monsieur di Borbone and all the principal persons were filled with much wonder that the Pope and so many cardinals and all Rome, being disarmed, should wait for such an army and great danger, without sending to the said Monsieur di Borbone an ambassador to make some parley, nor letters, or answer to his letters which the said M. di Borbone had formerly written, and the Viceroy, to his Holiness about the affair of the agreement."
[256] Sanuto Diarii, xlv. 352.
[257] A condotto, or military engagement, was usually for so many years certain, and one or two more at the option or beneplacito of parties.
[258] Vat. Urb. MSS. 816, fol. 144-5.