Contents and List of Citations xxxi CHAPTER XXII THE ITALIAN CITIES AND THE RENAISSANCE I. The Italian Despots PAGK 217. Machiavelli's advice to despots 516 // Principe, cc. 13, 15, 17; trans., among other places, in Motley's Universal Library II. Humanism 218. Dante and the great writers of Greece and Rome . .520 Divine Comedy, canto iv (close) : trans, by C. E. Norton 219. Dante's defense of Italian 522 Convito, Lib. i, c. 1 1 ; ed. by Moore ; trans, (badly) in Morley's Universal Library; better by Miss Katharine Hillard 220. Dante's account of his sad life 524 Ibid. Lib. i, c. 3 221. Petrarch's description of himself 524 Epistola ad posteros: Epistolae de rebus familiaribus et variae ; ed. by Fracassetti, Vol. I; trans, in ROBINSON AND ROLFE, Petrarch, 59 sqq. and 63 222. Petrarch's wide reputation 526 Ibid. Ep. Fam., Lib. xiii, 7 : Robinson and Rolfe, 165 sq. 223. Petrarch copies a work of Cicero 527 Ibid. Ep. Fam., Lib. xviii, 12 : Robinson and Rolfe, 275 sqq. 224. Founding of the Vatican Library by Nicholas V ... 529 VESPASIANO, Vite di iiomini ilhistri del secolo XV, Life of Nicholas V, cc. 25 sq. ; trans, by Whitcomb, Literary Source-Book of the Italian Renaissance 225. How Cosimo de' Medici founded a library 530 Ibid. Life of Cosimo, cc. 12 sqq. III. The Artists of the Renaissance 226. Cellini and the art-loving pope, Clement VII .... 532 Vita da hit medisimo scritta, Lib. i, cc. 43 sq. and 5 1 ; trans, by Thos. Nugent, 2 vols., 1812 ; also by Symonds, Roscoe, and others 227. Remarkable versatility of Leonardo da Vinci . . . . 535 VAS A RI Vite de* piu cccelenti pittore, etc. ; trans, by Mrs. Fos- ter, Bohn Library, II, 366 sqq. 228. Kindly disposition of Raphael 536 Ibid. Ill, 61 sq. 229. Michael Angelo and the popes : his character and aims 537 Ibid. V, 253, 257 sq., 293, 312 sq., and 335 230. Michael Angelo's fiery impetuosity 541 VIGNERO, as quoted by Mrs. Foster, V, 242, note.