[83] _Op. cit._ p. 152. [84] See Pietro Rossi, _L'Arte Senese nel Quattrocento_, p. 38. [85] Folgore, translated by J. A. Symonds. [86] See the fine sonnet sequence entitled _Niccola Pisano_ in _Rime e Ritmi_. The sculptor is said to have copied his Madonna from the Phaedra on the antique sarcophagus used as a tomb for the Countess Beatrice. [87] There is an eloquent appreciation of the pulpit in Mr F. M. Perkins' _Giotto_, pp. 8-13. [88] V. Lusini, _Il San Giovanni di Siena_, p. 23 (_note_). Giacomo was paid 52 golden florins and 34 soldi for his work. [89] Pastor, vi. p. 201. There appears to be absolutely no foundation for the aspersions made by Gregorovius and other writers upon the moral character of this really admirable personage. Cf. _op. cit._, p. 199 (_note_). [90] _Nuovi Documenti_, pp. 362, 364-368, 560. [91] The bas-relief of St John Evangelist, over the altar to the right of the entrance, is the mediocre work of some sculptor of the Quattrocento, possibly Urbano da Cortona. [92] See the document in Milanesi, Vasari III., pp. 519-522. [93] _Cf._ G. W. Kitchin, _Pope Pius II._, p. 36. [94] _Historia Friderici III. Imp._, p. 73. [95] See _Misc. Storica Senese_, iv. 7-8. [96] The question is well discussed in Miss E. March Phillipps' monograph on Pinturicchio, pp. 116-123. [97] Anonymous Chronicle existing in the Archivio di Stato and the Biblioteca Comunale, quoted by Lisini, _Notizie di Duccio_, p. 5. [98] Berenson, _Central Italian Painters_, p. 117. [99] _Op. cit._, p. 41 (_note_). [100] In the Appendix to V. Lusini, _Il San Giovanni di Siena_, there are a number of interesting letters about the progress, etc., of the work, from Ghiberti to the Operaio del Duomo and Giovanni di Turino, and from Giacomo to the Signoria. [101] _Cf._ M. Reymond, _op. cit._, II. p. 98. [102] _Cf._ Documents concerning the authorship of this fresco in Lusini, _op. cit._ p. 60 (_note_). [103] See Alessio, _Storia di San Bernardino_, p. 60 (and _note_). [104] Letter 321. [105] _Leggenda minore_, i. 2. [106] Rondoni, _Tradizioni popolari e leggende_, etc., p. 150. [107] _Nuovi Documenti_, pp. 240, 241. [108] _Documenti_, II. pp. 326, 339; _Nuovi Documenti_, p. 239. [109] _Leggenda_, pp. 205, 206. [110] See pp. 48-50. [111] This does not refer to Bazzi's fresco, but to an earlier picture figured in Gigli, I. p. 24; possibly Andrea di Vanni is meant, as it closely resembles his work. [112] See the Deliberations of the Balìa and the Concistoro for July 21st and 22nd, in Pecci, _Memorie_, _etc._, II. pp. 211-213.