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RAPHAEL SANZIO d’uRBINO.
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accomplished men whom he attracted to his court,
and the enthusiasm for classical learning which pre-
vailed among them, strongly influenced those pro-
ductions of Raphael which date from the accession
of Leo. They became more and more allied to the
antique, and less and less embued with that pure
religious spirit which we find in his earlier works.
Cardinal Bembo, Cardinal Bibiena, Count Cas-
tiglione, the poets Ariosto and Sanazzaro, ranked
at this time among Raphael’s intimate friends.
With his celebrity his riches increased; he built
himself a fine house in that part of Rome called
the Borgo, between St. Peter’s and the castle of
St. Angelo; he had numerous scholars from all
Parts of Italy, who attended on him with a love
and reverence and duty far beyond the lip and
knee homage which waits on princes; and such
Was the influence of his benign and genial temper,
that all these young men lived in the most entire
union and friendship with him and with each other,
and his school was never disturbed by those ani-
mosities and jealousies which before and since have
disgraced the schools of art of Italy. All the other
Painters of that time were the friends rather than
the rivals of the supreme and gentle Raphael,
With the single exception of Michael Angelo.
About the period at which we are now arrived,
the beginning of the pontificate of Leo. X., Michael
Angelo had left Rome for Florence, as it has been
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accomplished men whom he attracted to his court,
and the enthusiasm for classical learning which pre-
vailed among them, strongly influenced those pro-
ductions of Raphael which date from the accession
of Leo. They became more and more allied to the
antique, and less and less embued with that pure
religious spirit which we find in his earlier works.
Cardinal Bembo, Cardinal Bibiena, Count Cas-
tiglione, the poets Ariosto and Sanazzaro, ranked
at this time among Raphael’s intimate friends.
With his celebrity his riches increased; he built
himself a fine house in that part of Rome called
the Borgo, between St. Peter’s and the castle of
St. Angelo; he had numerous scholars from all
Parts of Italy, who attended on him with a love
and reverence and duty far beyond the lip and
knee homage which waits on princes; and such
Was the influence of his benign and genial temper,
that all these young men lived in the most entire
union and friendship with him and with each other,
and his school was never disturbed by those ani-
mosities and jealousies which before and since have
disgraced the schools of art of Italy. All the other
Painters of that time were the friends rather than
the rivals of the supreme and gentle Raphael,
With the single exception of Michael Angelo.
About the period at which we are now arrived,
the beginning of the pontificate of Leo. X., Michael
Angelo had left Rome for Florence, as it has been