Note 768 — Chapter VI · THE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONS AND CITIES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Vasari, xii. p. 158. V. di Michelangelo, at the beginning. At other times mother nature is praised loudly enough, as in the sonnet of Alfons de’ Pazzi to the non-Tuscan Annibal Caro (in Trucchi, l. c. iii. p. 187):
‘Misero il Varchi! e più infelici noi, Se a vostri virtudi accidentali Aggiunto fosse ‘l natural, ch’è in noi!’