[542] Among the Poesie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, published by Cesare Guasti (Flor. 1862) from the autographs in the house of the Borromeo at Milan, see especially the canzonet (written about 1475) De ruina Ecclesiae (‘Vergine casta, benchè indegno figlio—Pur son di membri dell’eterno Sposo.’)
[543] Moreni, Con torni di Firenze, iii. 34 et seq. Cf. ante, p. 135.
[544] Poliziano to Tristano Calco, Flor. April 22, 1489. (Fra Mariano was then preaching in Milan.) Poliziano had previously, as he mentions in this letter, praised the Augustinian’s learning, eloquence, and morals in the introduction to his Miscellanies. N. Valori speaks of him, l. c. p. 76. Cf. Tiraboschi, ix. (vi. 3), 1677-1685.
[545] Baluz, Miscellan. ed. Mansi, i. 530. [’A sua posta (Fra Mariano) aveva le lagrime, le quali cadendogli dagli occhi per il viso, le raccoglieva tal volta e gittavale al popolo.’] Benivieni on Savonarola’s teachings and prophecies, in a letter to Clement VII. (Villari, i. 70).
[546] The Storia fiorentina, ch. xii.-xvii. contains many remarks on Savonarola, specially valuable on account of the author’s position and corresponding views.
[547] Prose volgare inedite p. 283. Cf. ante p. 351.
[548] Lettera di un Anonimo circa alcune prediche fatte da Fra Mariano da Genazzano in Roma, in Villari, ii. clxxvi.
[549] L. Passerini, Storia e Genealogia delle famiglie Passerini e Rilli (Flor. 1874), p. 24.
[550] Letter of C. Borgia to Piero de’ Medici, written after the accession of Alexander VI., from Spoleto, October 5, 1492, printed from Med. Arch. in Arch. stor. Ital., s. iii. vol. xvii. p. 510.
[551] Med. Arch. F. 51.