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:--