The lecture was published in the North American Review in June, 1837; the present essay is a reprint of that article.
Page 216, note 1. From Andrew Marvell's "Horatian Ode, on the Return of Cromwell:"
"He nothing common did, or mean,Upon that memorable scene,
Nor called the Gods in vulgar spiteTo vindicate his helpless right," etc.
Page 232, note 1. Michael Angelo, however, seems to have doubted the inherent stability in the construction of the dome, and girded it with great chains, which in later years have been reinforced.
Page 233, note 1. I believe this portrait is lost, but that it is alluded to by Michael Angelo in a sonnet.
Page 243, note 1. This was undoubtedly the noble statue of St. George by Donatello, until lately in a niche outside of one of the churches, now in the National Museum of Fine Arts at Florence.
Page 244, note 1. Mr. Emerson was fond of repeating, in looking at an engraving of Michael Angelo which hung in his house, the lines of Tennyson in In Memoriam:—
"And over those ethereal eyesThe bar of Michael Angelo."
Page 244, note 2. In the journal for 1864 Mr. Emerson quotes Niebuhr thus: "Michael Angelo was the man to be first King of Italy," and adds, "And I should say of Michael that the power of his pictures and works is not so much correct art as it is great humanity. I accept easily all the criticism I hear on his style. It does not lessen him."
