The poem was banned by Rome, although not until after its author's death.

In our National Gallery is a picture which used to be considered Botticelli's--No.

1126, "The Assumption of the Virgin"-- especially as it is mentioned with some particularity by Vasari, together with the circumstance that the poet and painter devised it in collaboration, in which the poem is translated into pigment.

As to the theology, I say nothing, nor as to its new ascription to Botticini; but the picture has a greater interest for us in that it contains a view of Florence with its wall of towers around it in about 1475.

The exact spot where the painter sat has been identified by Miss Stokes in "Six Months in the Apennines".