[185] Fabroni, as above, ii. 47.
[186] The Medicean Archives (divisione avanti il principato), contain an endless series of letters from princes and great men, which afford a proof of the widely-spread and intimate connections of Lorenzo and his family.
[187] Luigi Pulci, Lettere, p. 38, and later.
[188] Bern, Corio, b. vi. chap. ii. Rinuccini, Ricordi, s. cxv. cxvi. L. Pulci, Lettere, p. 51 (Letter from Naples, March 19). G. Tommasi, Sommario della Storia di Lucca, Flor. 1847 (vol. x. of the Arch. Stor. Ital.) 336.
[189] Rinuccini, Ricordi, s. cxxii. The king is called ‘Re di Dacia o signore di Norvecia.’ Beneath the arch of the Porta San Gallo, we read on a marble tablet a remembrance of a successor of Christiern, King Frederick IV., who visited Venice and Florence in 1708, and had great pleasure in contemplating the treasures of art. The Medici, whom his predecessors had seen rise so brilliantly, were then almost extinct.
[190] L. Pulci, Lettere, p. 96 (Letter of June 16, 1475).
[191] Fabroni, as above, ii. 66 seq. Desjardins, 161 seq. The Dauphin, afterwards King Charles VIII. was born in 1470, Beatrice of Aragon in 1457. In 1476 she married Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary.
[192] L. Pulci, as above, p. 63 (Fuligno, May 20, 1472).
[193] Med. Arch. Filza, 34.
[194] Cosimo Rucellai, Bernardo’s son and Lucrezia’s grandson; born 1468, died 1495. The marriage with Madonna Argentina, daughter of Gabriel Malaspina, Marchesa of Fosdinovo, took place only in 1492. (The widow married Piero Soderini, later Gonfaloniere for life.) The expression ‘nuova di zecca,’ or ‘zecca al gitto’ for unexpected news, is still used in Tuscany at the present day.