[175] Storia Fiorentina, chap. ii.
[176] ‘Discorso di Alessandro de’ Pazzi al cardinale Giulio de’ Medici’ (Pope Clement VII.) anno 1522 in the supplement to Jacopo Pitti’s Istoria Fiorentina (Arch. stor. Ital. i. Flor. 1842), p. 420 seq., and Introduction to the same by Gino Capponi, 413 seq.
[177] Del Reggimento di Firenze, libri ii. In the Opere inedite, ii. Flor. 1858, 1-234.
[178] Beside Machiavelli, Gio. Mich. Bruto has this story in his book, and according to custom made Piero deliver a speech to his partisans, filling many pages (‘Ita ad illos loquutus fertur,’ i. 380 seq.). But this author cannot be considered as an authority. A better one is Vespasiano da Bisticci, who, however, limits the project of recall to Agnolo Acciaiuoli. The Neapolitan ambassador, Marino Tomacelli, is said to have been present at Piero’s interview with the heads of the party.
[179] Despatch of King Ferrante to Antonio Cicinello and Marino Tomacelli, February 26, 1467; see Trinchera (as above), 65.
[180] Despatch of August 14: Trinchera, 209.
[181] Del Reggimento di Firenze, as above, 34, 64, 97.
[182] Niccolo Roberti to Duke Borso, Florence, December 4, 1469; see Cappelli, as above, i. 250. ‘I quali due ultime (i.e. Pitti and Martelli) soggiunsero che si aveva a riconoscere uno signore e superiore che avesse unanime a trattare tutte le cose occorrenti concernenti lo Stato di questa eccelsa Signoria.’
[183] Guicciardini, Storia Fiorentina, chap. ii. Machiavelli has embellished the story in his fashion, and spoken of Lorenzo and Giuliano as being present at the consultation, which is very unlikely. Roscoe, chap, iii., has been led by this incongruous statement and Lorenzo’s notices to believe the whole affair to be fictitious. On the day after the consultation they went to the Medici.
[184] Rinuccini, Ricordi, s. cxiii. cxiv. cxviii.; Guicciardini, Storia Fiorentina, chap. iii.