[402] Batines, l. c. ii. 41, 42; Mehus, Traversari, p. 180.
[403] Mehus, l. c. p. 320.
[404] Shepherd, l. c. ii. 45.
[405] Vite di illustri Italiani, i. 306.
[406] The Medicean Archives, filza xlvi., contains the following letter of Bessarion (B. episcopus Sabin. card. patr. Constant. Nicænus sedis apost. legatus) to Lorenzo de’ Medici: ‘Illustrious and noble lord, dear friend,—The bookseller, Vespasiano di Filippo, whom we mentioned shortly before at the close of a letter addressed to you, has now sent us information about the works of Augustine that he had written for us, with an estimate of the expense with which we are entirely satisfied. He writes us he has divided the work in question into nine volumes, with miniatures, bindings, and all that belongs to it. One volume is wanting to complete the collection, respecting which he writes that he will hasten to finish it, which we also desire. For payment he has still to receive eighty-seven ducats, besides the four hundred which your bank has accredited to him in our name. We request you to pay him this remainder and to place it to our account. Take the books to yourself and keep them in a suitable place till we write to you about them. May it be well with your Magnificence! Frascati, May 23, 1472.’ The learned ecclesiastic perhaps never saw the books, for he died on November 19 of the same year. The copy is in the Marciana, where, however, only seven volumes are found. It is decorated with Bessarion’s arms, and in the fourth volume we find the name of the copyist, Francesco degli Ugolini, Fiorentino, 1471. G. Valentinelli speaks of this manuscript in his catalogue of the MSS. of the Marciana, ii. 30.
[407] Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. pp. 113, 217, 403. See above, p. 469, ii. Bk. iv. pt. 3. c. 6.
[408] ‘Vespasiano cartolare’ was buried in Sta. Croce on July 27, 1498. Giornale Sior. degli Arch. Tosc. ii. 241. On the first Florentine printers see ii. 133 seq.
[409] Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p. 99.
[410] L. Passerini, Gli Alberti di Firenze, i. 87 seq. Madonna Bartolommea, the daughter of Tommaso degli Obizzi, of a distinguished family of Northern Italy, a general of Pope Urban V. and the King of Italy, and first Italian knight of the Garter, married Antonio degli Alberti in 1390, and died about 1426.
[411] Opere volgari di Leon Bat. Alberti, pubbl. da Anicio Bonucci, vol. ii. Flor. 1844. A portion of this work has been repeatedly printed under the title Trattato del Governo della Famiglia, as a work of Agnolo Pandolfini, of which we have spoken above (p. 467; see Gamba’s Testi di Lingua, 700, 701) a question of authorship, the discussion of which can have no place here, and which was lately revived in the introduction to Il Padre di Famiglia, dialogo di L. B. Alberti rimesso in luce sopra un nuovo codice palatino da Fr. Palermo, Florence 1871.