[120] Fabroni, l. e., ii. 51 seq.
[121] Rinuccini, Ricordi, xcvi.
[122] Fabroni as above, ii. 47; letter of March 22, idem, 49.
[123] Desjardins as above, 136-141.
[124] Guicciardini, in whom the traditions of grandfather and granduncle are united in cap. ii. of the Storia fiorentina, p. 18; Machiavelli, who, in consequence of the death of Girolamo, his ancestor in Cosimo’s time, could not be very favourable to Luca Pitti and his adherents, in book vii. of his history. G. M. Bruto, Florentinæ historiæ, book ii.
[125] On this affair, which has never been fully cleared up, see Ricotti, Storia delle Compagnie di Ventura, iii. 191, where the judgment of contemporaries is referred to; and Canestrini, Documenti per servire alla storia della Milizia italiana, Flor. 1851 (Arch. stor. ital. xv.), series lxxviii. 179-184, where the letters of Francesco Sforza and the King are to be found.
[126] Vespasiano da Bisticci as above, p. 360.
[127] Rinuccini, Ricordi, xcix.
[128] Lettera di Jacopo Acciaiuoli ad Agnolo, Naples, September 6, 1466. See Fabroni as above, ii. 28. The time of Lorenzo’s journey cannot be precisely fixed, but it must have taken place before or towards the middle of August, for the later events leave no time. Jacopo writes: ‘Lorenzo di Piero fu quà. Il S. Rè li fece carezze assai.’
[129] Paradiso, xv. 109.