. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. would be difficult to add any fresh information. It may not be superfluous to remind the reader that after Savonarolasdeath one of the numerous acts of persecution directed against the con-vent consisted in depriving it under false pretences of all the booksbelonging to the Medici collection. In October, 1500, they were restoredunderWsh conditions, and at last, in 1508, the community being burdenedwith debts, and Savonarola, the careful preserver of the books, being nolonger alive, the collection was sold to Galeotto Franciosi, the agent ofCardinal Giov
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. would be difficult to add any fresh information. It may not be superfluous to remind the reader that after Savonarolasdeath one of the numerous acts of persecution directed against the con-vent consisted in depriving it under false pretences of all the booksbelonging to the Medici collection. In October, 1500, they were restoredunderWsh conditions, and at last, in 1508, the community being burdenedwith debts, and Savonarola, the careful preserver of the books, being nolonger alive, the collection was sold to Galeotto Franciosi, the agent ofCardinal Giovanni de Medici, afterwards Leo X. Thus it went to Rome,and again returned thence to Florence. Bandini, Lettera sopra icollettori di codici orientali, esistenti nella insigne Basilica Laurenziana ;Annales conventus S. Marci (frequently quoted by us under the title of Cronica di San Marco, and also under that of Ubaldini), at sheets 18,22, 23, 26, 28 ; Padre Marchese, Storia del convento di San Marco,p. 46 and fol. ; Piccolomini, op. MICHELANGIOLO BUONAROTP SA VONAROLAS LOVE OF ART. 49 manuscripts in no way lessened his admiration for the finearts. Did he not found the school of design in , and insist that his novices should practise thearts in order to provide for the necessities of the conventwithout having recourse to charity ? Was he not con-tinually surrounded by a chosen band of the best artistsof his age ? All the world knows the ardent affection hehad inspired in Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, who, forfour years after his masters death, was unable to resumethe All the Della Robbia were devoted to Savon-arola, two of them received the monastic robe from hishands, and the family long preserved a traditional rever-ence for his name. Concerning Lorenzo di Credi, Vasaritells us that he was a partisan of Fra Girolamos sect,and relates of Cronaca, that he had conceived so greata frenzy for Savonarolas teachings, that he could talk ofnothing else ; and he says
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