_); to wit, six florins in the first year, eight in the second,
ten in the third, making in all the sum of ninety-six pounds
(lire)."
A note of April 16, 1488, records that two florins were paid to
Michael Angelo upon that day. The total sum is estimated by Gotti
(p. 6, note) to equal 206.40 lira present value--about _L_8 12_s._ It
was usual for apprentices to pay a sum to their masters rather than
to be paid.
10 Drawings, even by old masters, were of no pecuniary value in those
days; they were merely kept for use in the workshop. The fashion of
collecting drawings for their own sake was invented by Giorgio
Vasari some sixty years later.
11 There is a mask of a grinning faun to be seen in the Bargello at
Florence, attributed to Michael Angelo and said to be this his first
work in sculpture. It does not correspond with either the account of
Vasari or of Condivi; it is a poor and ugly piece of work, and shows
no sign whatever of the early style of Michael Angelo, but is more
likely a work of a later period by some one who had seen the mask
under the left arm of "The Night" on the tomb of Lorenzo at San
Lorenzo.
12 "During this time Michael Angelo received from the Magnifico an
allowance of five ducats per month, and was furthermore presented
for his gratification with a violet-coloured mantle. But, indeed,
all the young men who studied in the gardens received stipends of
greater or less amount from the liberality of that Magnificent and
most noble citizen, being constantly encouraged and rewarded by him
whilst he lived.
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