Location: Firenze, Casa Buonarroti
Sub-Location: Archivio Buonarroti IX.413; Carteggio di Michelangelo CCCLXXXIX.
Sub-Location: Archivio Buonarroti IX.413; Carteggio di Michelangelo CCCLXXXIX.
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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. Gotti, “Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti”, seconda edizione, I, p. 127, II, pp. 55-56; 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. 385-86.
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by A. Gotti, “Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti”, seconda edizione, I, p. 127, II, pp. 55-56; 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. 385-86.
Leonardo Sellaio, in Rome, to Michelangelo, in Florence: Sebastiano has finished the 'Resurrection of Lazarus' and the experts hold it to be superior to Raphael's. Agostino Chigi's vault has been uncovered and it is worse than the last room in the Vatican palace.
Artist(s): RaphaelDates: 1.1.1519
Carisimo chonpare [...].
Bastiano apresso è finito, e riesce di modo che quanti intendenti ci sono lo metono di grandisima lungha sopra a Rafaello.
E schoperta la volta d’Agostino Ghisi, chosa vituperosa a un gran maestro, peg[i]o che l’ultima stanza di Palazo asai, di modo che Bastiano non teme di niente. Sievi aviso. [...]
Vostro Lionardo Selaio in Roma
