[71] _Diari_, 809. The Cardinal mentioned is Francesco Piccolomini. [72] See A. Lisini, _Misc. Stor. Senese_, iv., 5, 6. Mr Heywood's admirable little book, _Our Lady of August and the Palio of Siena_, deals exhaustively with this aspect of the past history and present life of the Sienese. The horse races of the Campo had originally nothing to do with the contrade, but were run by the Republic. Foreign nobles, even reigning sovereigns, entered horses, no less than did Sienese notabilities. On August 15th, 1492, the palio was won by a horse belonging to Cesare Borgia; but because his jockey (_fantino_) had won by a trick of questionable legality, the Signoria made some difficulty about giving him the prize--apparently at the appeal of the representative of the Marquis of Mantua whose horse had come in second. (See Cesare's letter in Lisini, _Relazioni tra C. Borgia e la Repubblica Senese_, pp. 11, 12.) [73] See A. Lisini, _Chi fu l'architetto della Torre del Mangia_, in the _Misc. Stor. Senese_, II., 9, 10. [74] The fullest account of these frescoes is contained in Milanesi, _Commentario alla Vita di Ambrogio Lorenzetti_, Vasari I. pp. 527-535. Apart from the great beauty of the individual figures, the spiritual power and imaginative insight of the whole conception are surely worthy of the century of Dante and Petrarch. But for a very different appreciation, see Mr Berenson, _op. cit._, pp. 50, 51. [75] L. Banchi, _Il Piccinino nello Stato di Siena_, etc., _loc. cit._, pp. 226-230; Malavolti, iii. 3, pp. 51b, 52. [76] _Documenti per la Storia dell' Arte Senese_, i. p. 188. [77] Not to be confused with the more famous Gregorio da Spoleto, Ariosto's master, who held a chair here in the latter part of the fifteenth century. [78] _Purg._ xii 10-93. [79] _Nuovi Documenti per la Storia dell'Arte Senese_, p. 389. [80] Mr R. H. Hobart Cust (to whose excellent _Pavement Masters of Siena_ I am indebted for many of these dates and authorships of the pavement designs) points out that the Cimmerian Sibyl is the one intended. [81] The _Lupa_ and _Marzocco_ shaking hands in front of the tablet refers to the alliance between Siena and Florence concluded in the year 1483, in which this Sibyl was laid down. In Allegretto's _Diari Senesi_, under June 16th, 1483, we read: "The League was proclaimed on a chariot between the Signoria of Siena and the Florentines, with honourable conditions, according to what Giovan Francesco called Il Moro, the trumpeter of the Signoria, said. God grant it be true; for I cannot believe it!" (_Diari_, 815). [82] We can measure the proportionate value attached to the designing and executing of these works from the fact that in the case of the painter Matteo, who only designed and did not execute, the remuneration was four _lire_, whereas Federighi, who both designed and executed his Erythraean Sibyl, received nearly 650 _lire_. See Cust _op. cit._ pp. 41, 47.