"Simion de Senis me fecit,
Sub Anno Domini MCCCXLIII."

The authenticity of these bas-reliefs is acknowledged in Italy; a pamphlet, giving an account of them, was published in Paris, 1821, written by one of the Peruzzi family.

[43]Epist. ad Posterit.

[44]Ibid.

[45]Epist. ad Posterit.

[46]Abbé de Sâde.

[47]Abbé de Sâde.

[48]Abbé de Sâde.

[49]Secretimi Francisci Petrarchæ.

[50]Petrarch uses church time, in which the ninth hour answers to six A. M.