Note *12 — Chapter XX
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During the Duke's absence an interesting correspondence passed between Isabella d'Este and Cardinal Ippolito d'Este in Rome concerning a Venus and a Cupid of the Duke's. The Venus was a torso and antique, but the Cupid was the work of Michelangelo. Cf. Gaye, Carteggio d'Artisti, vol. II., p. 53; Alvisi, Cesare Borgia, p. 537; Luzio, in Arch. St. Lombardo (1886), and Julia Cartwright, Isabella d'Este (Murray, 1903), vol. I., p. 230 et seq.