[60] Niccolò’s conversation with Niccolò Barbadoro, in Cavalcanti as above, p. 380 (copied, with alterations, by Machiavelli in the 4th book of the Florentine Hist.), gives the best insight into the feelings of the party.
[61] Vasari: Life of Lorenzo di Bicci, ii. p. 229. The building of the Sapienza already begun, served later as a cage for lions, and is now employed as an educational institution.
[62] Vasari: Life of Masaccio, vol. iii. p. 160.
[63] Vitæ CIII. Virorum Illustrium qui sæculo xv. extiterunt, auctore coævo Vespasiano Florentino. (In the Spicilegium Romanum, edited by Cardinal Angelo Mai.) Rome, 1839, reprint. Vite di nomini illustri del secolo xv. scritte da Vespasiano da Bisticci, stampate nuovamente da Adolfo Bartoli. Flor. 1859. Palla di Noferi Strozzi, p. 271. Messer Leonardo is Leonardo Bruni.
[64] Vespasiano da Bisticci as above, 278.
[65] Commissioni di Rinaldo degli Albizzi, iii. 507.
[66] Gio. Cavalcanti as above, 320-327.
[67] Fabroni as above, i. 27; ii. 31, 58.
[68] L. Passerini: Genealogia e storia della famiglia Guadagni, Flor. 1874, p. 52.
[69] Cosimo’s own memoranda, Fabroni as above, ii. 96, which give no information as to the grounds and form of the action, must be compared with Cavalcanti’s relation, 507, which supplied Machiavelli with his materials. The protocols of the Signory give no information as to these proceedings.