[Footnote 62: The narrator, in a parenthetic statement, imputes a
doctrine to St. John, which is an unconscious approach on Mr. Browning's
part to the "animism" of some ancient and mediæval philosophies. It
carries the idea of the Trinity into the individual life, by subjecting
this to three souls, the lowest of which reigns over the body, and is
that which "Does:" the second and third being respectively that which
"Knows" and "Is." The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of
the fiction.]

[Footnote 63: The present Riccardi palace in the Via Larga was built by
Cosmo dei Medici in 1430; and remained in the possession of the Medici
till 1659, when it was sold to Marchese Riccardi. The original Riccardi
palace in the Piazza S. S. Annunziata is now (since 1870) Palazzo
Antinori.

In my first edition, the "crime" is wrongly interpreted as the murder of
Alexander, Duke of Florence, in 1536; and the confusion, I regret to
find, increased by a wrong figure (8 for 5), which has slipped into the
date.]

[Footnote 64: Mr. Browning possesses or possessed pictures by all the
artists mentioned in this connection.]

[Footnote 65: (Verses 26, 27, 28.) "Bigordi" is the family name of
Domenico called "Ghirlandajo," from the family trade of wreath-making.
"Sandro" stands for Alessandro Botticelli. "Lippino" was son of Fra
Lippo Lippi. Mr. Browning alludes to him as "wronged," because others
were credited with some of his best work. "Lorenzo Monaco" (the monk)
was a contemporary, or nearly so, of Fra Angelico, but more severe in