9 When Michael Angelo was thirteen years old Lodovico gave in to his
wishes and apprenticed him to Domenico Ghirlandajo (he was called
Ghirlandajo because as a goldsmith he had made garlands of golden
leaves for the brows of the Florentine ladies) upon the unusual
terms set forth in the following minute from Domenico's ledger under
the date 1488:

"I record this first of April how that I, Lodovico di Lionardo di
Buonarrota, bind my son Michael Angelo to Domenico and Davit di
Tommaso di Currado for the next three ensuing years, under these
conditions and contracts: to wit that the said Michael Angelo shall
stay with the above-named masters during this time, to learn the art
of painting, and to practise the same, and to be at the order of the
above-named; and they for their part, shall give him in the course
of these three years twenty-four florins (fiorini di Sagello, _L_8
12_s._); to wit, six florins in the first year, eight in the second,
ten in the third, making in all the sum of ninety-six pounds
(lire)."

A note of April 16, 1488, records that two florins were paid to
Michael Angelo upon that day. The total sum is estimated by Gotti
(p. 6, note) to equal 206.40 lira present value--about _L_8 12_s._ It
was usual for apprentices to pay a sum to their masters rather than
to be paid.

10 Drawings, even by old masters, were of no pecuniary value in those
days; they were merely kept for use in the workshop. The fashion of
collecting drawings for their own sake was invented by Giorgio
Vasari some sixty years later.

11 There is a mask of a grinning faun to be seen in the Bargello at
Florence, attributed to Michael Angelo and said to be this his first
work in sculpture. It does not correspond with either the account of
Vasari or of Condivi; it is a poor and ugly piece of work, and shows
no sign whatever of the early style of Michael Angelo, but is more
likely a work of a later period by some one who had seen the mask
under the left arm of "The Night" on the tomb of Lorenzo at San
Lorenzo.

12 "During this time Michael Angelo received from the Magnifico an
allowance of five ducats per month, and was furthermore presented
for his gratification with a violet-coloured mantle. But, indeed,
all the young men who stu