[292] Letter of A. Sforza to his nephew the Duke of Milan, March 6, 1486, copies of which were sent on the same day to the Duke of Calabria, and by P. Capponi to Lorenzo. Appendix to the life of P. Capponi, Arch. Stor. Ital., vol. iv. pt. 2, p. 66-71.
[293] Storia fiorentina, ch. viii. The Ferrarese reports in Cappelli, p. 274-286, contain much that gives an insight into the position of affairs.
[294] V. Acciaiuolo, l. c. p. 24.
[295] A. Guidoni, Flor., August 13, 1486, in Cappelli, l. c. p. 285. G. J. Trivulzio to the Duke of Milan, from the camp at Ponzano, August 12, in Rosmini, ii. 150. Rinuccini, Ricordi, p. cxlii.: poi per manco male si accettò.
[296] R. Ferdinandi Instruct. L., p. 153. The Duke of Calabria had written to the same effect to Filippo Strozzi, on November 27, 1486, from the camp. Vita di Fil. Strozzi il vecchio, p. 36.
[297] Camillo Porgio’s masterly account, La Congiura dei Baroni del Regno di Napoli contra il Re Ferdinando I. (first printed at Rome in 1565) contains many illustrations and corrections from the Regis Ferdinandi Instructionum Liber (unfortunately not printed complete), and from the two suits against the king’s private secretaries and barons, which were printed in 1487 and 1488 by Ferrante’s command and sent to the foreign courts, and reprinted with notes by Stanislao d’Aloe as an appendix to his edition of Porgio (Naples, 1859).
[298] The King to Lorenzo, Castelnuovo, June 3, 1487. Fabroni, l. c. ii. 275.
[299] Giov. Lanfredini to the Signoria, Naples, September 27, 1486, in Bandini, Collectio, &c. p. 10.
[300] Guidoni’s reports (in Cappelli) contain a number of notices and hints from which Lorenzo’s state of mind at the time of the treaty of 1486 and his relations with the allies may be clearly made out. On Sarzanello, see Carlo Promis, Storia del forte di Sarzanello (Turin, 1888). From one of Guidoni’s reports it appears that the Florentines also used mines: ‘sperasi per certe cave fatte ... che S. Francesco si acquisterà fra due dì.’
[301] R. Ferdinandi Instr. L., p. 245.