[165] Guasti, as above, p. 12.
[166] Fabroni, as above, ii. 39.
[167] The different letters, see Guasti, as above, pp. 14-16.
[168] The description of the marriage in Delle Nozze di Lorenzo de’ Medici con Clarice Orsini nel 1469 informazione di Piero Parenti Fiorentino, Flor. 1870. The writer says at the beginning that he has the details from Cosimo Bartoli, one of the speakers at the festivities. The Magliabechi MS., from which the writing is taken (Strozzi MSS. xxv. cod. 574), mentions no author; the list of the MSS., however, gives Piero, the son of Marco Parenti, the author of a chronicle which has remained in MS., which will again be mentioned. A similarity between the writings of the latter and this ‘Information’ would be hard to discover, however. The opinion of the unmentioned editor, that the report was addressed to Filippo Strozzi the elder then in Naples, has slight foundation.
[169] This valuable little book is enumerated as No. 27 in the inventory of valuables found in Lorenzo’s house after his death.
[170] A letter written from Careggi on July 13 by Piero to his wife, who was in town, and which is difficult to understand on account of allusions to unknown circumstances, arouses the suspicion that Piero was not quite pleased with this embassy. ‘Tu sai che mal volentieri decti licentia a Lorenzo per molti rispecti et maxime per non fare dimostratione di questa mandata. Di a Lorenzo che non esca dello ordine in cosa alcuna e non faccia tante melarancie non essendo imbasciadore ch’io non determino che paperi menino a bere l’oche’ (Med. Arch.).
[171] Fabroni, as above, ii. 53.
[172] As above, p. 56.
[173] Vasari in Verrocchio’s Life, as above, v. 142. Monuments sépulcraux, Plate XIV.
[174] Fabroni, as above, ii. 42.