[80] Description and narrative which Vespasiano da Bisticci, 525, gives of Alessandra de Bardi Strozzi and her sad fate, give a deep insight into the miseries of this time.
[81] Commissioni di Rinaldo degli Albizzi, iii. 651, 669.
[82] Commissioni, iii. 672, 677.
[83] Idem, 680.
[84] Vespasiano de Bisticci as above, 417.
[85] L. Basserini: Baldaccio da Anghiari, in the Arch. Stor. Ital., 3, iii. 131, 166. The author is of the opinion that the connections of Baldaccio to the Pope Gregory IV., still residing in Florence, were the cause of the Medicean party wishing to get rid of him.
[86] Gio. Cavalcanti, I. c. ii. 195.
[87] Register of 1458, Canestrini, as above, 168. Progressive scale, id. 213.
[88] Gio. Cavalcanti as above, ii. 210.
[89] Etiam nobis esset reputatio et utilitas si Papa hic veniret. Rinaldo degli Albizzi, Commissioni, iii. 589.