[70] Gio. Cavalcanti as above, 558, 610.
[71] Storia Fiorentina dai tempi di Cosimo de’ Medici a quelli del gonfaloniere Soderini. Flor. 1859. Vol. i. of the Opere inedite di Fr. Guicciardini, illustrate da G. Canestrini, p. 4.
[72] ‘Fermare lo Stato’—to give a settled form to a Government, introduced by the sovereign or a political party. ‘Stato’ means in this case the rule with which they exercise it.
[73] I Capitoli del Comune di Firenze Inventario e Regesto, i. Flor. 1866.
[74] Published by D. M. Manni, Flor. 1720. Constantine Höfler has in his history of King Rupert (Freiburg, 1861) placed the activity of Buonaccorso Pitti in its right light.
[75] Printed by D. M. Manni Cronachette Antiche, Florence, 1733. The history of the conquest of Pisa, printed there likewise, is probably by his son Neri.
[76] Storia Fiorentina, chap. i.
[77] P. Litta: Genealogy of the Acciaiuoli. L. Taufani: Nicola Acciaiuoli, Florence, 1863. Gaye has published in the Carteggio inedita d’Artisti, i. 57-69, the remarkable letters of the seneschal for the years 1355-56, on the building of the Certosa. Vespasiano da Bisticci as above, 351 (on Agnolo Acciaiuoli).
[78] Vespasiano da Bisticci as above, 332. Angiolo Segni: Vita di Donato Acciaiuoli, edited by Tommaso Tonelli, Florence, 1841.
[79] Franc. Guicciardini: Recordi di Famiglia, in his Opere inedite, x.