[392] Kervyn de Lettenhove, l. c. ii. 71.
[393] In Desjardins, Négociations, i. 417, there is a letter of Commines to this Spinelli, dated Vienne, August 6, 1494, relating to the affairs of Piero de’ Medici. Spinelli, whom Commines (Mémoires, book vii. ch. vii.) calls homme de bien en son estat et assey nourri en France, had just then been sent out of France at the beginning of the war. Piero sent him to negotiate with Charles VIII. on his approach.
[394] Kervyn de Lettenhove, l. c. ii. 83. The Metz affair was the unsuccessful and fearfully punished treachery of Jean de Laudremont, one of the provosts of the city; see Philippe de Vigneulles, in the book of Memorials of Metz edited by H. Michelant, p. 115 et seq.
[395] From the Cronaca di Benedetto Dei, 1470-1492; MS. in the Magliabecchianæ, printed in Pagnini, l. c. ii. 135 et seq.
[396] Daru, Histoire de Venise, ii. 295 et seq.
[397] Scip. Ammirato, book xviii. ii. 998. Pagnini, l. c. ii. 124.
[398] Pagnini, l. c. ii. 203 et seq. (Molini) Documenti di Storia Italiana, i. 101 et seq.
[399] Wadding, Annales Minorum, vii. 323.
[400] L. Cibrario, Legione sopra alcuni vocaboli usati nei registri della guardaroba Medicea, in Arch. stor. Ital., third series, vi. 152 et seq. Ricordi di ariente ed altre cose prestate, Arch. Med. fol. lxii.
[401] Borghini, Discorsi (Flor. 1755), ii. 164.