[235] See book v. The palace in the Borgo degli Albizzi, belonging to a branch of the family in the present day, with the large garden, whose portal in the Via dell’Orinolo was ascribed to Donatello, has lately disappeared in building the National Bank.
[236] Vasari’s assertion that these libellous pictures are by the hand of Andrea del Castagno arises from an anachronism.
[237] Vasari, in the Life of Verrocchio, vol. v. p. 152. According to this description, one might suppose that the figures were still existing at Vasari’s time. Other Medicean portraits (Voti), in the Annunziata were destroyed after the revolution of 1527.
[238] Letter to Gio. Lanfredini of August 18, 1487, Med. Archiv. The priorate of Capua came later to Leone Strozzi, the son of Filippo and Clarice de’ Medici, Lorenzo’s granddaughter.
[239] Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p.
[240] Fabroni, l. c., ii. 116.
[241] Romanin, iv. 389.
[242] In the document, Synodus florentina, cap. ix.
[243] Allegretto Allegretti, Diarj Senesi; Muratori, R. It. Scr., xxiii. col. 784.
[244] Bull, see Rainaldi, Annales Eccl., x. 582 et seq., and Fabroni, l. c. ii. 121 et seq.