[8] Archivio detto. Bastardello, No. 2, del 1405, a. 65.
[9] Apparently the working foreman or clerk of the works. The terms used to describe the different offices are both confusing and misleading, but it is evident from the documents that the Rettore or Operaio as he is indifferently called, was a person of much greater social importance than the Capo-maestro, and not really a workman at all. He was the official Director of the Cathedral works, the Steward in fact: the Capo-maestro being his head workman.
[10] These numbers refer to the plan on p. 15.
[11] See Siena e il suo Territorio, p. 217, and passim. Also Mil. Doc., vol. i. p. 238; and Sulla Storia Artistica Senese, p. 84.
[12] For references on this head from the Archives of the Opera del Duomo, see Mil. Doc., vol. ii. pp. 12, 238, 239.
[13] Ferdinando Rubini, Dei Restauri eseguiti nella chiesa Metropolitana in Siena. (Bargellini, 1869–1879.)
[14] 1448. Pavimentum quoque marmoreum ante portas Templi Senensis trinis scalis ascensis, e marmore sterni fecit. Abel quoque sacrificium, nec non Publicanum et Phariseum designari duo insuper vascula, melle uno felle altero plenis, e regione portarum extremarum notabili significazione depromi, quoniam a summo et maximo Deo in hujus mundi ingressu ac limine tum mala tum bona omnes sunt accepturi.—Tizio, Hist. Sen., vol. iv., ad ann.
[15] Alfonso Landi. Descrizione del Pavimento, quoted in full by Padre Guglielmo delle Valle. Lettere Senese, vol. iii., pp. 124–157.
[16] The author of Siena e il suo Territorio, p. 211, states that these figures were executed originally in 1513, and suggests that they may have been designed by Giacomo Cozzarelli; but I have hitherto found no authority to support that statement, and they are now too much restored to assist one’s judgment by comparison with other work of that artist. Moreover, as Giacomo Cozzarelli at that date would have been very old, since we read of work done by him as far back as 1447, this is very improbable.
[17] Archivio dell’ Opera del Duomo. Libro E. IV. Memorie, a. 21. Archivio detto. Libro delle due Rose dal 1466 al 1476, a. 64.