[398] See Castiglione's verses.
[399] Terzo Commentario del Ghiberti, Frammenti Inediti, in Le Monnier's Vasari, vol. i. pp. xi.-xiii. I have paraphrased rather than translated the original, which is touching by reason of its naïveté.
[400] See [Vol. I., Age of the Despots], p. 17.
[401] See Rosmini's Vittorino da Feltre, p. 63, note.
[402] See Ghiberti's Commentario, in Le Monnier's Vasari, vol. i. p. xiv.
[403] Alberi, Relazioni Venete, serie ii. vol. iii. p. 114, &c.
[404] By a brief dated Aug. 27, 1515.
[405] It may be observed that he calls the round-arched buildings of the Middle Ages Gothic; the pointed style German.
[406] 'When we reflect upon the divinity of those intellects of the old world ... when we see the corpse of this noble city, mother and queen of the world, so piteously mangled ... how many Pontiffs have allowed the ruin and defacement of ancient temples, statues, arches, and other buildings, the glory of their founders! How many have suffered their foundations to be undermined for the mere sake of quarrying pozzolana, whereby in a short time the buildings themselves have fallen to earth! How much lime has been made of statues and other antique decorations! I should not hesitate to say that the whole of this new Rome which now meets the eye, great as it is, and fair, and beautified with palaces and churches and other buildings, has been cemented with lime made from antique marbles.'