Location: Firenze, Casa Buonarroti
Sub-Location: Archivio Buonarroti IX.391; Carteggio di Michelangelo CLXXIV.

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by A. Gennarelli, 'Sopra una statuina in marmo attribuita a Raffaello Sanzio and sopra un giudizio di dieci membri dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Florence', Florence 1873, pp. 27-28; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, I, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 270-71.
Notes: The document is dated 16 November 1516 by Muntz, Crowe-Cavalcaselle and Minghetti.

Leonardo Sellaio, in Rome, writes to Michelangelo, in Carrara: Raphael has chosen Antonio da Sangallo as his colloborator at St Peter's and has made a clay model for a putto for Pietro d'Ancona, who has replicated it in marble.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 22.11.1516
+ dì 22 di novembre 1516. Sabato vi schrissi [...]. Rafaello, chome vi dissi, chiese chompagnia e fugli dato Antonio da S. Ghallo cholla medesima provisione. À fatto un modello di tera a Pietro d’Anchona d’un putino, e lui l’à presso che finito di marmo e dichono sta asa’ bene; sievi aviso. [...] Vostro Lionardo ne’ Borgherini in Roma.