FOOTNOTES
[1] To the original edition of this volume.
[2] The analogy of the individual might be quoted. We are aware within ourselves of times when thought is fertile and insight clear, times of conception and projection, followed by seasons of slow digestion, assimilation, and formation, when the creative faculty stagnates, and the whole force of the intellect is absorbed in mastering through years what it took minutes to divine.
[3] See [Vol. I., Age of Despots], pp. 239, 350-356, 415-420, where I have endeavoured to treat these topics more at length.
[4] It would be easy to multiply these contrasts, comprising, for example, the Cardinals Inghirami and Bibbiena and the Leo of Raphael with the Farnesi portraits at Modena or the grave faces of Moroni's patrons at Bergamo.
[5] Portrait in the Uffizzi, ascribed to Giorgione, but more probably by some pupil of Mantegna.
[6] Paradiso, vi. 112.
[7] Notably Purg. xi. 100-117.
[8] A curious echo of this Italian conviction may be traced in Fletcher's Elder Brother.