[345] Vespasiano da Bisticci, 1. c. p. 439. Letters of Nicholas V. to Marsuppini and the Signoria, October 24, 1452, p. 441.
[346] Detailed Latin biography by Naldo Naldi, Muratori, Scr. r. Ital. vol. xx.; Vespasiano da Bisticci, 1. c. p. 444 seq. For the introduction to the latter by Bernardo del Nero, with a short outline and list of Manetti’s writings, as well as an Italian extract from Naldi by one of the Ricci family, see Galletti, 1. c. p. 129 seq. Compare Apostolo Zeno Dissertaz., Voss, i. 170 seq.
[347] The original of the Statuta Populi et Communis Florentiæ is to be found, with the MSS. of numerous other statutes, in the Florentine archives; printed in three volumes, said to be at Freiburg, 1778-83. See Lami, Antichità Toscane, i. 522, and N. Salvetti, Antiquitates Florentinæ jurisprudentiam Etruriæ illustrantes, Flor. 1777.
[348] Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p. 283.
[349] Tractatus quo concluditur: Nullam Gentilium scientiam chatolicæ fidei christianæ esse contrariam, addressed to Malatesta de’ Malatesti by Pesaro as umpire, Rinaldo is termed therein, ‘Nobilis florentinus juvenis Rainaldus domini Masii de Albicis de Florentia.’ There is a tract by the same author, De electione medici ad nobilem florentinum juvenem Cosmum Johannis Bitii de Medicis; see Commissioni di R. d. A. iii. 601 seq.; Mehus, 1. c. p. 394.
[350] On the sonnet generally ascribed to Burchiello, ‘O umil popol mio, tu non ti avvedi,’ see Commissioni, iii. 647.
[351] Rosmini, Vita di Francesco Filelfo da Tolentino, Milan, 1808, i. 35.
[352] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 69.
[353] Phil. Sat. ii. 3; iv. 1; Shepherd, l. c. i. 238. Rosmini, p. 75, has no desire to dwell on revolting subjects.
[354] Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p. 246.