Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 1 of 2)

by Alfred von Reumont

[205] Florence, December 25, 1475. See D. Moreni, Lettere di Lorenzo il Magnifico al S. P. Innocenzo VIII. Flor., 1830, p. 1, seq. The letter addressed to Sixtus IV. is here incomprehensibly referred to his successor.

[206] Ricordi, s. cxxiii. cxxiv.

[207] Chronicle of Piero di Marco Parenti, MS. of the Magliabechiana; Letter of Angelo Poliziano to Madonna Lucrezia de’ Medici of May 31, 1477, in Poliziano’s Prose Volgari Inedite, &c. p. 49.

[208] Cronaca di Notar Giacomo, pp. 134-137.

[209] The date results from Morelli’s Chronicle. See T. Dellungo in G. Carducci’s edition of Poliziano’s Italian Poems, Flor. 1863, p. xxvii. Piero de’ Medici mentions the desire of his younger son in a letter to Lorenzo, then at Milan, Fabroni, l.c. vol. ii. p. 52.

[210] Vasari, vol. x. p. 293. C. Quarti, Le Ville Bandinelli a Pizzidimonte, in Belle Arti Opuscoli descritivi e biografici, Florence 1874, p. 345, &c.

[211] Ricordi, s. cxxv.

[212] L. Pulci, l. c. p. 99.

[213] Rinuccini, Ricordi, s. cxxvi.

[214] Rome, Oct. 15, 1474, Med. Arch.