[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. [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.