Taine.  Italy, book iii., chapter ix.:  Michael Angelo.

     Andersen.  The Improvisatore, chapter xii.:  Allegri’s
     Miserere, in the Sistine Chapel.

The Creation of Man:—­

     Milton.  Paradise Lost, book VIII., lines 500-528.

Jeremiah:—­

     Lucy Larcom.  Poem, The Weeping Prophet.

Daniel:—­

     Sir Edwin Arnold.  Poem, The Feast of Belshazzar.

The Delphic Sibyl:—­

     Lord Houghton.  Delphi, a poem included in Longfellow’s
     collection of Poems of Places, volume on Greece.

The Cumaean Sibyl:—­

     Virgil.  AEneid, sixth book, translated by C.P.  Cranch or by
     John Conington.

The Medicean Tombs, general impressions:—­

     Symonds.  The Renaissance in Italy, volume on the Fine Arts,
     chapter viii.:  Life of Michael Angelo.

     Taine.  Italy, book iii., chapter v.:  The Florentine School
     of Art.

     Mrs. Oliphant.  The Makers of Florence, chapter xv.:  Michael
     Angelo.

     Rogers.  Italy:  poem on Florence.

Lorenzo de’ Medici:—­

     Milton.  Il Penseroso.

Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici:—­

     Charles Algernon Swinburne.  Poem, In San Lorenzo.

The Last Judgment:—­

     The Latin hymn, Dies Irae, by Thomas de Celano, translated
     by General John E. Dix.

     Alexander Dumas.  Les Trois Maitres:  Description of Last
     Judgment, translated by Esther Singleton in the compilation
     Great Pictures described by Great Writers.

The portrait of Michelangelo:—­

C.P.  Cranch.  Michael Angelo Buonarotti, a poem read at a celebration of the 400th anniversary of his birth, included in Longfellow’s collection of Poems of Places, volume on Italy.

V. OUTLINE TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN MICHELANGELO’S LIFE.

(Based on Symonds’ Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti, to which the accompanying notes on pages refer.)

1475.  Born at Caprese, March 6 (p. 4).

1488.  Apprenticed to Domenico and David Ghirlandajo, April 1 (p. 12).

1489-1492.  Under the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent, in the
     Casa Medici (p. 23).

1494, 1495.  In Bologna, work on the tomb of St. Dominick (pp. 47, 48).

1495.  Return to Florence, the Sleeping Cupid (pp. 50-52).

1496-1498.  In Rome:—­
    The Bacchus (p. 58). 
    The South Kensington Cupid (p. 62). 
    The Pieta (p. 69).

1500.  A second visit to Rome (p. 80).

1501-1505.  In Florence (p. 87).

1504.  Statue of David (p. 96) taken from workshop, May 14;
  arrived at Piazza Signoria, May 18;
  set in place, June 8.

Commissioned in August to prepare cartoons for decoration of Hall in
     Palazzo Vecchio, on wall opposite to that assigned to Leonardo da
     Vinci (p. 119).