E. Livermore Forbes, in Cassirer, Kristeller, and Randall, Renaissance Philosophy of Man, 223.“the nature of all other beings is limited”: Ibid., 225.“You shall have the power”: Ibid.1. MICHELANGELO’S NOSEhe was busy copying: Vasari, Lives, 1:332.“surpassed and vanquished the ancients”: Ibid., 1:418.“the work not of a young man”: Ibid., 1:331; Wallace, Michelangelo, 53n4.the envy of his schoolfellows: Vasari, Lives, 1:332.spoken derisively of Pietro’s sketches: Cellini, Autobiography, 18.“Jealous [at] seeing him more honoured”: Vasari, Lives, 1:332.“almost tore off the cartilage”: Condivi, Michelangelo, 72–73.his nose “broken and crushed”: Vasari, Lives, 1:332.lying “as if dead”: Condivi, Michelangelo, 72.The son of a comparatively modest bureaucrat: Michelangelo’s family claimed to be able to trace an “ancient and noble lineage,” but this seems to have been little more than wishful thinking. Wallace, Michelangelo, 36; cf. Michelangelo, Carteggio, 4:249–50.Although some early Renaissance artists: Siena provides a number of especially interesting examples of artists who served in communal government.
