[143] Rondoni, _Sena Vetus_, p. 37. For further information upon the _Tavolette_ the reader may be referred to Mr W. Heywood's charming little book, _A Pictorial Chronicle of Siena_, to which I am indebted. [144] _Cf._ Heywood, _op. cit._ p. 69. [145] "The fury of arms having cooled down on every side, the Pope [Paul II.] easily found means to conclude an universal peace between the powers of Italy, wherein was named the Republic of Siena, in the name of which it was accepted and ratified by Messer Niccolò Severini, Sienese orator in Rome, in the month of May 1468." Malavolti, iii. 4, p. 70 b. [146] _Diari Senesi_, 813. The Cardinal Malfetta is G. B. Cibo, afterwards Innocent VIII., _cf._ p. 76. [147] _Diari_, 815, 816. The Lorenzo di Antonio mentioned is the Venturini who was executed in 1486 (see p. 78). [148] _Cf._ Sozzini, _Diario_, pp. 23, 24 (where, however, Gabella is confused with Biccherna), and Heywood, _op. cit._ pp. 87, 88. [149] For various documents touching these votive pictures after the Battle of Camollia, see _Nuovi Documenti_, pp. 434, 435. [150] _Nuovi Documenti_, p. 245. [151] Dante, _Purg._ xi. 109-111. [152] See Gigli, _La città diletta di Maria_, pp. 29-35. The houses of Provenzano Salvani's family were in this part of the city--hence the name. [153] See the Deliberation of the _Concistoro_ for July 2nd, 1460, _pro porta Sancti Francisci_, in Lusini, _Storia della Basilica di San Francesco_, p. 123 (_note_). [154] _Nuovi Documenti_, pp. 222-224. The _Ufficiali sopra l'Ornato della Città_ are proposing to make a fountain on the Poggio de' Malavolti. [155] The imposing tower at the back of the Palazzo Tolomei, at the beginning of the Via dei Termini, is the Torre Miganelli or Castelli, in which the public bells were hung. [156] See the _Miscellanea Storica Senese_, iii. 4, p. 59. [157] The story of Anselmo and Angelica is inserted in the _Annali Senesi_ under 1395, and is told by Sermini and Ilcino. That of Ippolito and Cangenova (which from the mention of Messer Reame should, if historical, be referred to the same epoch) is related by Olinda in Bargagli's _Trattenimenti_. [158] The sole value--and that is not much--of Fortini's work lies in such little transcripts from Sienese life in the Cinquecento. The rest is sheer pornography, and the man's life was as vile as his novels are filthy. [159] _Cf._ Alessio, _op. cit._ pp. 103, 104. [160] _Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece_, iii. p. 68. [161] Landucci, _Sacra Leccetana Selva_, pp. 76-79. [162] _Assempro_ xl. It was this Frate Bandino who founded the convent of Sant' Agostino in Siena. [163] _Assempro_ xli. is the life of Niccolò Tini. [164] Letter 326, written from Rome, December 15th, 1378. [165] Mr Heywood, in his account of these frescoes (_The Ensamples of Fra Filippo_, pp. 227, 228), appears to have missed this, the essential point of the allegory. [166] _Assempro_ xxiv.