"I will not omit to mention," says Vasari, "that the most learned and
very reverend Don Vincenzio Borghini, of whom we have before spoken in
relation to other matters, has collected into a large book, innumerable
drawings of distinguished painters and sculptors, ancient as well as
modern, and among these are two drawings on two leaves opposite to each
other, one of which is by Donato, and the other by Michael Angelo
Buonarroti. On these he has with much judgment inscribed the two Greek
mottos which follow; on the drawing of Donato, "[Greek: Ê Donatos
Bonarrotixei]," and on that of Michael Angelo, "[Greek: Ê Bonarrotos
Donatixei]," which in Latin ran thus: _Aut Donatus Bonarrotom exprimit et
refert, aut Bonarrotus Donatum_; and in our language they mean, 'Either
the spirit of Donato worked in Buonarroti, or that of Buonarroti first
acted in Donato.'"