[312] R. Ferd. Instr. L., p. 217 et seq. Cf. supra p. 265.
[313] A. Guidoni, Flor., July 7, 1487, in Cappelli, l. c. p. 295.
[314] Med. Arch., fol. 57. There are a number of despatches of this and a somewhat later time relating to this affair.
[315] Rainaldi, Ann. eccl. in anno 1487, Doc. x.
[316] Stef. Infessura, Diarium, in Muratori R. It. Scr. t. iii. pt. 2, p. 1218, 1219.
[317] Med. Arch., l. c.
[318] Stefano Taverna to the Duke of Milan, Flor., September 14, 1487, in Rosmini, ii. 188. A. Guidoni, Flor., September 6 and 12, in Cappelli, p. 296.
[319] Spedaletto, which passed after Lorenzo’s death to Maddalena Cybò and later to the Corsini family, to whom it still belongs, was visited in November 1654 by Cardinal de Retz, coming from Spain by sea, before he proceeded to the Grandduke Ferdinand II. at the Ambrogiana near Empoli, and thence to Rome. He knew that the villa, which he calls L’Hospitalità, had belonged to Lorenzo de’ Medici, but he wrongly places here the scene of the battle in which Catiline fell. Mèmoires du Card. de Retz, pt. iii. ch. i. Ed. by Champollion-Figeac (1866), iv. 246.
[320] Lettere di Jacopo da Volterra a P. Innocenzo VIII., published with a commentary by M. Tabarrini in the Arch. Stor. Ital., s. iii. vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 3, et seq. Jacopo Gherardi had been formerly in the service of Cardinal Ammanati. His writings passed into the Venetian archives after the sack of Rome in 1527. The Medicean archives contain a series of despatches relating to this mission. Lorenzo writes from Spedaletto on September 11-19; on the 21st he was in Florence; on October 2-10, at Spedaletto again. He says once: ‘I am here according to my custom, for the care of my health.’
[321] Despatch of October 22, 1487, in Desjardins, l. c. p. 214.