¹ As an indication of a recent interest in Michelangelo, the author lists seven books and articles published too late for consideration in the text. To these may be added now, A. Perrig, Michelangelo Buonarrotis letzte Pietà-Idee, Bern, 1960; Tusiani, Joseph, tr., The Complete Poems of Michelangelo, New York, 1960 Google Scholar; Wilde, Johannes, ‘The Decoration of the Sistine Chapel’, Proceedings of the British Academy, XLIV, 1958, pp. 61–81 Google Scholar, as well as an important contribution to the subject of less recent vintage, Hans Sedlmayr's Michelangelo, Versuch über die Urspmnge seiner Kunst, Munich, 1940.