II. WORKS RELATING TO THE LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO
A. Contemporary Documents
Ascanio Condivi. "Vita di Michel Angelo Buonarroti," Antonio Blado, Rome, 1553.
Francisco da Hollanda. " Quatre Entretiens sur la Peinture," held in Rome in 1538-1539—composed in 1548, and published by Joachim de Vasconcellos—French translation in "Les Arts en Portugal," by Comte A. Raczynski, Renouard, Paris, 1846.
Donato Giannotti. " Dialoghi de' giorni che Dante consume nel cercare l'lnferno e 'l Purgatorie "—composed in 1545 — first edition, 1859, Florence.
Paolo Giovio. " Michaelis Angeli Vita "—first published by Tiraboschi in his " Storia della lett. ital.," vol. ix, 1781, Modena.
Benvenuto Cellini. "La Vita," written between 1559 and 1562 — first edition, 1728, Naples.
Benedetto Varchi. "Due Lezzioni," Florence, 1549.
Benedetto Varchi. "Orazione funerale recitata nelle esequie di Michel Angelo Buonarroti," Giunti, Florence, 1564.
Francesco Berni. "Opere burlesche," Giunti, Florence, 1548.
"The Correspondents of Michael Angelo." I. Sebastiano de Piombo. Italian text published for the first time by Gaetano Milanesi, with a French translation by A. le Pileur, Librairie de I'Art, Paris, 1890.
"Sammlung ausgewaehlter Biographien Vasaris, herausgegeben von Carl Frey." Vol. ii. "Le Vite di M. A. B." Critical edition of all the biographies of Michael Angelo, composed by contemporaries.
