[422] On the Piovano Arlotto, who died in 1483, see D. M. Manni, Veglie Piacevoli (3rd ed., Flor. 1816), where are many details of the jests and buffooneries. The Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo has been often printed and imitated; there is an edition with introduction by D. Moreni (Flor. 1820). Gaye (l. c. i. 169) has produced some original documents which cast some doubt on the accounts of the ‘fat cabinet-maker’ collected by Manni; the claims of Antonio Manetti, known from his connection with the Dante-literature (cf. ante, p. 51), to the authorship of the story have been lately vindicated. Cf. Papanti, Catalogo dei Novellieri (Livorno, 1871), vol. ii. 11. The story of Bianco Alfani is in Manni’s edition of the Cento novelle anticke (Flor. 1782), i. 211 et seq.
[423] B. Varchi, l. c., book ix. (ii. 122 et seq.).
[424] Cena di Famiglia, l. c. p. 173, 174. G. Dominici, Regola del governo, etc., p. 164. Cf., ante, i. 483.
[425] Notizie di illustre donne, in the Arch. stor. Ital., iv. 439 et seq. Vite d’uomini illustri, p. 525 et seq.
[426] The names are copied from a Strozzi document in the Magliabecchiana, in E. Branchi’s treatise Della croce vermiglia in campo bianco, insegna dei Cavalieri di popolo, in the Periodico di numismatico e sfragista, iv. 75 et seq. (Flor. 1872.) This treatise contains numerous quotations from chronicles and histories relating to knighthood in the commonwealth, particularly in 1378.
[427] Memorie storiche di Ser Naldo da Montecatini (in the Delizie degli Eruditi toscani, xviii. 99).
[428] Il viaggio degli Ambasciatori fiorentini al Re di Francia nel 1461, in the Arch. stor. Ital., s. iii. vol. i. p. 7 et seq. Cf. ante, i. 173.
[429] Mémoires, vol. vii. ch. 9. B. Rucellai, who was as much at home in that house as in his own, describes in his Commentary De Bello Italico (p. 52), the plundering of books and other valuables, ‘quorum pars a Gallis, pars a paucis e nostris, rem turpissimam, honesta specie praetendentibus, furacissime subrepta sunt, intimis abditisque locis ædium, ubi illi reconditi fuerant, perscrutatis.’
[430] L. c. p. 168.
[431] Gaye, l. c. i. 285, 286, 290.