PHET DANIEL
THE LIBYAN SIBYL
THE PROPHET JEREMIAH
THE FLOOD
THE BRAZEN SERPENT
JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES
ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW INSCRIBED "JESSE"
ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW INSCRIBED "IORAM"
ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW INSCRIBED "ASA"
THE PROPHET JONAH
THE TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO
THE TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF NEMOURS
LORENZO DE MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO
THE HEAD OF THE DAWN
APOLLO
THE HEAD OF THE NIGHT
NIGHT
THE MADONNA AND CHILD
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
THE JUDGE. FROM "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"
SPIRITS OF THE BLESSED, PART OF "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"
THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT PETER
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL
THE PIETA OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE
BRUTUS

PART I

THE LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI,
BY HIS SCHOLAR ASCANIO CONDIVI,
TRANSLATED BY CHARLES HOLROYD

CHAPTER I

THE RAPE OF DEIANIRA, OR THE BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS AND THE ANGEL OF THE
SHRINE OF SAINT DOMINIC

Michael Angelo Buonarroti, the unique painter and sculptor, was descended
from the Counts of Canossa, a noble and illustrious family of the land of
Reggio, both on account of their own worth and antiquity, and because they
had Imperial blood in their veins.(2) For Beatrice, sister of Enrico II.,
was given in marriage to Count Bonifazio of Canossa, then Signor of
Mantua; the Countess Matilda was their daughter, a lady of rare and
singular prudence and piety; who, after the death of her husband
Gottifredo, held in Italy (besides Mantua) Lucca, Parma, Reggio, and part
of Tuscany, which to-day is called the Patrimonio of San Pietro; and,
having in her lifetime done many things worthy of memory, died and was
buried in the Badia of San Benedetto, beyond the walls of Mantua, which
abbey she had built, and largely endowed.

II. Messer Simone then, of this family, coming to Florence as Podesta(3)
in the year 1250, was deemed worthy of being made a citizen, and head of a
_sesitiere_ or sixth part of the town, for into so many wards was the
township divided at that time; to-day the wards are _quartieri_ or fourth
parts. The Guelph party were in power in Florence, and he, from Ghibelline
that he was, became Guelph, because of the many benefits he received from
that faction, changing the colour of his coat-of-arms, which originally
was gules, a dog rampant with a bone in his mouth, argent--to azure, a dog
or; and