[150] Compiègne, September 18, 1468; see Desjardins as above, p. 151.
[151] Guichenon in his Histoire de la maison de Savoye rather doubts the strange fact, contrary to Corio. See Muratori, Annali, 1468.
[152] Vespasiano da Bisticci as above, p. 228.
[153] The inscription reads:
‘Detisalvio . Neronis . f . equiti. floren. viro.
integerr. qui. domi. forisq. multa. pro.
rep. optime. gessit. patriae. libertatem.
vehementer. amavit. demum. inter. fortunæ.
procellas. summa. cum. laude. vixit.
ann. LXXXI. mens. VI. dies XII. filii.
unanimes. patri. pient se. et. b. m.
pos. obiit. anno Christi MCCCCLXXXIIIIII. kl. Aug.’
In an elegy to Lorenzo de’ Medici, probably written after the end of the Colleonic war, Angelo Poliziano (Prose volgari inedite, &c., p. 219) refers to this man’s fate:
‘Diotisalvi left in hasty flight his home;
Pining in exile now, he mourns the slow-footed time.’
[154] Cronachetta Volterrana as above, p. 326. Pecori, Storia di San Gemignano, Flor. 1853, p. 242.
[155] Rinuccini, Ricordi, s. cviii.
[156] L. Pulci, Lettere, p. 31.