[412] Cappelli, l. c. p. 301. Prolog. in Plauti comædiam Menæchmos, in Prose volg. p. 281 et seq. Politian indulges in a side hit at the modern authors who write in prose.
[413] Vasari, iii. 232, v. 36 et seq.
[414] L. Cibrario, l. c. p. 153.
[415] Varchi, l. c. ii. 107.
[416] A. M. Biscioni, notes to Lorenzo Lippi’s Malmantile racquistato (Flor. 1831), canto iii. stanza 8.
[417] I Capitoli della Compagnia del Broncone, pubblicati per cura di Giuseppe Palagi (Flor. 1872). [Cf. I. del Lungo in the Arch. stor. Ital., s. iii. vol. xvii. p. 147 et seq.] Lorenzo the younger was the head of the Compagnia del Broncone, and Giuliano that of the Compagnia del Diamante. There are still to be seen in Florence, in the Church of St. Ambrogio, in the Canto alia Mela, and the Canto di Monteloro, some inscribed tablets recalling the Potenze; but they are of rather late date.
[418] Tutti i Trionfi, Carri, Canti carnascialeschi, etc. (Flor. 1550; also Cosmopoli, 1750). The shows themselves were called Canti from these songs. Cf. ante, p. 22, 23. In 1475 the Florentines at Naples represented the triumph of Petrarch.
[419] Canzona d’un Piagnone pel bruciamento delle vanità nel carnevale del 1498, aggiuntavi la descrizione del bruciamento fatta da Girolamo Benvieni (ed. by I. del Lungo, Flor. 1864). [’Canzona che fa uno Fiorentino a carnasciale, trovandolo fuggirsi con un asinello carico di sue masserizie e col fardello in spalla.’] Carnaval complains that his idols are broken, the red Cross and the Name of Christ have conquered, and he must yield to a mightier king.
[420] Vasari, ix. 218. Naldo Naldi, Carmina, vi. 436.
[421] From the MS. in the Miscellanea Uguccione Strozzi, vol. cvi. in the Flor. Archives; printed by P. Fanfani in the Borghini, ii. 542 et seq.