Delivered before the Florentine Academy in 1546. See Guasti, p. 173, for the sonnet, and p. lxxv. for the dissertation. See also Gotti, p. 249, for Michael Angelo's remarks upon the latter.

[427]

Guasti, pp. 189, 188.

[428]

See Archivio Buonarroti; and above, p. 318, note 2.

[429]

Rime, p. xlv.