[157] See A. Cappelli, Lettere di Lorenzo de’ Medici conservate nell’Archivio palatino di Modena in Atti e Memorie delle R. R. Deputationi di storia pratria per le provincie Modenesi Parmensi, i. 249.
[158] Purgatorio xxv. 13. Par. iii. 46.
[159] Ricordi d’una giostra fatta a Firenze a dì 7 Febbraio 1481 (1469), after a Magliabechi MS. printed by P. Fanfani in Il Borghini, vol. ii. (Flor. 1864) pp. 473-483, 533-542. Tournaments were also publicly proclaimed, as at the carnival, 1467, at Perugia. See Giornale d’erudizione artistica, ii. 208.
[160] In the elegy to Lorenzo mentioned above (p. 260), Politian alludes to the tournament, which is also sung by Ugolino Vieri (Verino).
[161] See Litta, Fam. Orsini, table ix. xxiii. In San Salvator in lauro at Rome, where Latino Orsini lies buried (his monument belongs to the seventeenth century) the beautiful monument of Clarice’s mother is to be seen, with a statue of her reposing in death, and beneath, Magdalena Ursina pudicitiæ exemplum; in the niches, statuettes of the Madonna, St. Benedict (missing), and St. Scholastica; above, the Orsini arms, with the inscription:
Ranaldus. Vrsin. archiepus. florent. parenti. b. m. pientiss. p.
For illustration see Litta.
[162] Tre lettere di Lucrezia Tornabuoni a Piero de’ Medici ed altre lettere di vari concernenti al matrimonio di Lorenzo il Magnifico con Clarice Orsini. (After the MSS. of the Flor. Archives edited by Cesare Gnasti), Florence, 1859.
[163] The persons named in the letter are: Giovanni Tornabuoni; Cardinal Latino Orsini, also called Monsignore, the title (Illustrissimo e Reverendissimo Monsignore) which the cardinals bore to the times of Urban VIII.; Clarice’s two brothers—Orso (called Organtino, who married a Savelli), and Rinaldo (afterwards Archbishop of Florence); Clarice’s uncle Lorenzo, lord of Monterotondo; her uncles Latino, Giovanni, Archbishop of Irani and Abbot of Farsa, Napoleon, lord of Bracciano, and Roberto, mentioned above. Of the three young girls mentioned, Maria can only be Piero’s natural daughter, the wife of Leonetto de Rossi and mother of Luigi de Rossi, created a cardinal by Leo X.; Bianca is the wife of Guglielmo de’ Pazzi. Who Lucrezia is, is obscure. Guasti (as above, p. 10) is mistaken in thinking all three to be daughters of Piero and Lucrezia. In the Ricordo quoted by him (Fabroni, Laur. Med. Vita, ii. 9), Lorenzo only mentions Bianca and Nannina Rucellai.
[164] Guasti, as above, 12.