l where Michael Angelo banked his money.

121 Milanese, Le Lettere, No. xcvii. p. 115.

122 Michael Angelo wrote a postscript to letter No. cxvi.: "Oh, cursed a
thousand times the day and hour when I left Carrara! This is the
cause of my utter ruin. But I shall go back there soon. Nowadays it
is a sin to do one's duty."

123 Milanese. Ricordi, &c., p. 581.

124 Milanese. "Les Correspondants de Michel Ange," p. 24.

125 ._Ibid._ p. 24.

126 The letters of Vari are in the Buonarroti Archives, Cod. xi., No.
740-761; Symonds, vol. i. p. 362.

127 Le Lettere, No. ccclxxx., p. 423 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).

128 Le Lettere, No. xliv., p. 55 (in the British Museum).

129 Le Lettere, No. cccxc. p. 437. Milanese dates this letter August 8,
1524. Michael Angelo to Giovanni Spina; he signs it "at San
Lorenzo."

130 Several are by the hand of Michael Angelo, but some are done in the
mannered style of the architectural draughtsman of the period, and
suggest a Florentine assistant.

131 Gotti, i. 158

132 Lettere, Nos. cd. and cdii. pp. 450, 453.

133 Le Lettere, No. cccxciv. p. 442 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).

134 Le Lettere, No. cd. p. 450 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).

135 Le Lettere, No. cccxcvii. p. 446 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).

136 Surnamed Dini; he fell in the sack of Rome.

137 Le Lettere, No. cccxcix. p. 448 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).

138 The gate called San Gallo, which remained open until daylight.

139 Vol. i. p. 207.

140 Gotti, i. 199. San Nicolo is a little church on the way to San
Miniato; the tower forms the foreground in the view from the top of
the hill.

141 See p. 61.

142 The letter is in Gaye, ii. 229.

143 Any one who has spent a winter day drawing there will confirm Paolo
in this statement.

144 "Correspondants," pp. 108-112.

145 Vol. ii. pp. 89, 122.

146 In the Archivio Buonarroti, Codici xi. No. 765; Bottari, Lettere
Pittoriche, vol. iii. pp. 78-84; and Symonds, vol. ii. p. 25.

147 See p. 66.

148 Gotti, ii. p. 123.

149 Gotti, ii. p. 125.

150 See Gaye, iv. 289-309, and "Lettere," &c., pp. 709-712.

151 Lettere, No. cdxxxiii., dated July 20.

152 Lettere, p. 715.

153 Lettere, No. cdxlv. p. 505 (in the "Biblioteca Nazionale,"
Florence.)

154 Bottari, Lett. pitt. iii. 796.

155 Heath Wilson, p. 449.