[2] Vasari in the Life of Lorenzo di Bicci, a. a. O., ii. p. 225. The house came afterwards to the Ughi family. At present it is all built round, even the adjoining Lorenzi Palace, which up to our day preserved its ancient, solemn aspect.
[3] Ordinamenta justitiæ communis et populi Florentiæ anni 1293, a Francisco Bonainio edita, in Archivio Storico Italiano, serie ii. i. p. 1-93 [1855]. C. Hegel, Die Ordnungen der Gerechtigkeit in der Florentinischen Republik, Erlangen 1867. Compare P. Capei, Arch. Stor. Ital. ser. iii. vii. p. 132.
[4] Fr. Bonaini, Della Parte Guelfa in Firenze, in Giornale Storico degli Archivi Toscani (Flor. 1857), ii. p. 171, 257; iii. p. 77, 167; iv. p. 3. Unfortunately this laborious work remains incomplete. The oldest constitution of the Capitani and the Guelf party was in 1335, and is printed in Bonaini, i. p. 1-41. The office was in existence up to the year 1769.
[5] Gio. Villani, xi. chap. 92, 93.
[6] G. Canestrini, La Scienza e l’Arte di Stato desunta dagli Atti Officiali della Repubblica Florentina e dei Medici. Parte 1, L’imposta sulla ricchezza mobile e immobile. Florenz. 1862. No more has appeared of this work, which was to be the economical and administrative history of the Republic and of the first Medici period. The first part treats of the Estimo, of the Cadastre, and of the Decima of 1494. Cf. L. Banchi in the Archivio Stor. Ital., serie iii. i. p. 90 (G. F. Pagnini). Della Decima e delle altre gravezze imposte dal Commune di Firenze (Lucca, 1763) has in its first volume, p. 10, a short account of Florentine taxation, up to the introduction of the decima (p. 214-231.—Provision of May 22, 1427, for the formation of the cadastre).
[7] The Peruzzi in 1325 were an instance of this. Storia del Commercio e dei Banchieri di Firenze. Flor. 1868, p. 197.
[8] Varchi, Storia Fiorentina, at the end of book xiii. (Edit. Arbib. Flor. 1844, iii. p. 36.)
[9] ‘Ipse quidem nescit si fructus sequetur, vel non; sed, auditis aliis civibus, idem secutus est.’ ‘Consulta’ of May 12, 1427, by P. Berti, Nuovi documenti intorno al Catasto florentino, in the Giorn. Stor. degli archivi Toscani, iv. 32. Giovanni Cavalcanti (Storia Fiorentina, Flor. 1838, i. 196.)—a contemporary, who has left us the most lifelike description of that period, but who must be used with great caution on account of his decided and enthusiastic party views—has been followed by all later writers in his opinion of the Medici. At the head of these is Machiavelli, who took him as the principal source of information for those times.
[10] Gio. Cavalcanti, l. c. p. 262.
[11] Domenico Moreni, Continuazione delle Memorie della Basilica di S. Lorenzo. Flor. 1816, i. p. 27.