[100] The list of the masses ordered by Piero de’ Medici after his father’s death, and the grants for mourning habits to the members and servants of his family, among them five chamber-women and four maids (schiave), are given by Fabroni, ii. 254.
[101] M. Ficino, Epistol. i. 85.
[102] Fabroni, ii. 257.
[103] Litta, ‘Family Tornabuoni,’ in the Famiglie celebri Ital., Ademollo as above, iv. 1200. The Tornabuoni became extinct in 1635, and the name and inheritance of the Tornaquinci, extinct in 1790, passed to the branch of the Medici which is still flourishing in Florence.
[104] January 1, 1448, after Florentine style (annus ab incarnatione, i.e. from March 25), is the same day 1449.
[105] Laurentii Medicis Vita, per Nicolaum Valorium edita ad Leonem X.P.M. First printed by L. Mehus after a Laurentian MS., Flor. 1749; more recently in Philippi Villani Liber de civitatis Florentiæ famosis civibus et de Florentinorum litteratura principes fere synchroni scriptores. Ed. G. C. Galletti. Flor. 1847, p. 161. An Italian translation had already appeared, Flor. 1568. Niccolò Valori was a pupil of Marsilio Ficino, and a member of the Platonic Academy.
[106] On Gentile of Urbino, as he was commonly called, see A. M. Bandini, Specimen literaturæ Florentinæ, sæc. xv., Flor. 1752, i. 182; ii. 111. Desjardins-Canestrini, Négotiations diplomatiques de la France avec la Toscane, Paris 1859, i. 317. Embassy of Becchi and Piero Soderini to King Charles VIII., 1493, idem, 321-365. Address to Pope Innocent VIII. on occasion of the Neapolitan war of the Barons, 1485, p. 205-214. Gentile, bishop of Arezzo 1473, died April 19, 1497.
[107] Fabroni, Laur. Med. Magnif. Vita, Pisa, 1784, ii. 9.
[108] N. Valori as above, 166.
[109] Politian, Conjuratio Pactiana, at the end.