This work he completed in 1499, about the time the great Bramante came to Rome.

The group should be studied with the epoch of the Borgias for background; the Pieta rises supreme in ethical significance, and in the moral darkness about her she seems a pure sacrificial fire lighted by a great and earnest spirit in the dishonored realm of the Church.

Lucretia stood before the Pieta, and the masterpiece must have affected this unhappy daughter of a sinful pope more powerfully than the words of her confessor or than the admonitions of the abbesses of S.Sisto.
FOOTNOTES: [69] Manuscript in the Vatican, No.

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[70] Collocutores itinerantes Tuscus et Remus, Romae in Campo Florae, 1497.
[71] See the author's essay, Das Archiv der Notare des Capitols in Rom, and the protocol-book of the Notary Camillus de Beneimbene, 1457 to 1505.

Proceedings of k.bayr.Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Muenchen, 1872.