[18] Archivio detto. Libro E. IV. Memorie, a. 24.
[19] It is generally supposed that this ceremony was performed by Pope Alexander III. (Bandinelli), but the tradition is unsupported by documentary evidence hitherto obtainable. This same Pope laid the foundation stone of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in 1163. See Paris als Kunststätte, Georges Riat. (Seemann. Leipzig and Berlin, 1901.)
[20] Archivio detto. Libro Debit e Credit dal 1441 al 1497, a. 297 (on the back).
[21] La Guida Artistica, p. 56. Milanesi, Sulla Storia dell’ Arte Toscana, Scritti Varii, p. 52.
[22] Archivio detto. Libro Verde dal 1441 al 1457, a. 89. Libro E. IV. Memorie, a. 24. Libro E. 5. Debit. a. 110 (on the back).
[23] Ποιμάνδρης = Ποιμὴν ἀνδρῶν = “The Shepherd of men. De Potestate et Sapientia Divina.” The Editio Princeps of this work appeared in Paris in 1554. It was edited by Parthey, in 1854, and had been translated into German, by Tiedemann, in 1781. The connection of the name of Hermes with alchemy will explain what is meant by hermetic sealing, and will account for the use of the phrase, hermetic Medicine, by Paracelsus; as also for the so-called hermetic Freemasonry, of the middle ages.
[24] Siena e il suo Territorio, p. 221.
[25] This design was restored by Sig. L. Maccari, in 1866 (F. Rubini, Dei Restauri, etc.), at a cost of 3,403 lire 30 c.
[26] For which 8,900 lire 48 c. were paid.
[27] 1504 (St. Sen.), 13 Marzo. A maestro Bernardino Pinturicchio dipentore per sua fadiga d’avere fatto uno cartone di disengno per la Storia de la Fortuna, la quale al presente si fa in Duomo questo di 13 Marzo—lire dodici sol.—contanti per detto messer Alberto nostro. Io ho fatto boni a messer Alberto per una soma di grano de’ al detto maestro Bernardino. Archivio detto. Libro d’Entrata e Uscita. 1504 a 47.