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Notes

1. Niccolò Machiavelli, in John R. Hale, ed. and trans., The Literary Works of Machiavelli with Selections from the Private Correspondence (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961), 139, cited in Dora Thornton, The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 32.

2. Leon Battista Alberti, Anuli, quoted in Patricia Lee Rubin, Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 93.

3. Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. John R. Spencer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 63.

4. Anthony Grafton, ed., Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, in association with Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Vatican City, 1993), 53.

5. Giovanni Orlandi, Aldo Manuzio editore: dediche, prefazioni, note ai testi (Milan: Il polifilo, 1975), 2: 233.

6. Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili [The Strife of Love in a Dream] (London: Thames & Hudson, 1999), 262.

7. Machiavelli, in Hale, Literary Works of Machiavelli, 139, cited in Thornton, Scholar in His Study, 32.

8. Quoted by Stephen Campbell, The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 29.

9. Creighton E. Gilbert, ed. and trans., Italian Art, 1400–1500: Sources and Documents (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980), 172–73.

10. Jane Martineau, ed., Andrea Mantegna, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Milan: Electa, 1992), 429.

11. Gilbert, Italian Art, 1400–1500, 168.