[56] Canzone in lode di Michelagnolo Bonarroto. (See Frey, p. 7.)
[57] A Frenchman who saw him at that time.
[58] Letters of Michelangelo to Fattucci, March 7, 1551.
[59] Rime. Ed. Frey, LXXXVIII, p. 93.
[60] Ibid., C and CL, pp. 105, 106.
[61] The work on the fortifications of Rome directed by Antonio da San Gallo dates from his reign and also the construction of the Capitol, the raising of the statue of Marcus Aurelius, the completion of the Farnese Palace, the construction of the Via Paola, of the Sala Regia and the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican, the Caffarelli and Spada palaces, the Villa Medici, etc.
[62] As a matter of fact Michelangelo did not actually receive any income from this source until 1538, and after many difficulties he lost it in 1547.
[63] Later on the subject was treated after the sketches of Michelangelo in the Chapel of S. Gregorio at Santa Trinità. (See Vasari.)
[64] Perugino had painted the Assumption with a portrait of Sextius IV kneeling, Moses saved from the waters, and the Birth of Christ.
[65] Léon Dorez has found recently in the records of the private accounts of Paul III the exact dates of the work, April-May, 1536, to November 18, 1541.