[392] Ibid., p. 135.

[393] MSS. Vat. 3947.

[394] MSS. Vat. 7135.

[395] La Vaticane, etc., p. 475.

[396] MS. Vat. 3946.

[397] MS. Vat. 3948.

[398] For an account of what Sixtus accomplished at Santo Spirito see Pastor, History of the Popes, Eng. Tran. iv. 460-462.

[399] Brockhaus, Janitschek's Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaften, Band vii. (1884); Schmarsow, Melozzo da Forli (1886), pp. 202-207.

[400] I have taken 1 palm = mètre 0·223; and 1 mètre = 39·37 in.

[401] My calculation works out as follows. Each of 10 seats was 38 palms long: total length, 380 palms. As these 10 seats cost 130 ducats, each palm cost 130/380 ducats = 1/3 a ducat nearly.