APPENDICES I.The Pulpits of Pisa and Ravello II.Michael Angelo's Sonnets III.Chronological Tables FOOTNOTES: To the original edition of this volume.

See Appendix I., on the Pulpits of Pisa and Ravello.

I The Pulpits of Pisa and Ravello

Finding at Ravello, near Amain, a pulpit sculptured in 1272 by Niccola di Bartolommeo da

Yet something can be said with regard to the Ravello pulpit that plays so important a part in the argument of the learned historians of Italian painting.

The pulpit in the cathedral of Ravello is formed like an ambo of the antique type.

Surely we must look elsewhere than at Ravello or at Foggia for the origin of Niccola Pisano.

Yet this may be contested; and at all events it will not be easy to prove from the Ravello head of Sigelgaita that a more advanced school existed in the south.

They were going to Amalfi and would pass the night on the Alpine peak of Ravello, a medieval city where Wagner had passed the last months of his life, before dying in Venice.