Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2)

by Alfred von Reumont

[482] Moreni, Lettere, p. 5.

[483] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 389-391.

[484] Desjardins, l. c. p. 189. Ibid. another letter of Louis, dated February 17; also in Fabroni, l. c. ii. 298.

[485] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 299.

[486] A letter to G. Lanfredini, February 16, 1489, recommending an Archdeacon, Mario of Osimo (Med. Arch. F. 57), is signed Johannes Laurentii de Medicis prothonotarius apostolicus.

[487] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 374; Vita Leonis X. P. M., p. 245. Fosti, Storia della Badia di Monte Cassino, iii. 199. It is but too well known how greatly the convent went to ruin through the misdoings of its commanders.

[488] Desjardins, l. c. p. 214.

[489] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 374.

[490] Moreni, Lettere, p. 8. Cf. ante, p. 326.

[491] Roscoe, Life and Pontificate of Leo X. Ap. II. (iii. 385.)