[50] The graceful description of the view of Florence and its neighbourhood from Fiesole (‘Talia Fœsuleo lentus meditabar in antro Rure suburbano Medicum) stands at the end of the poem of Rusticus, which bears the date 1483, but its origin is probably connected with the time referred to above.
[51] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 288.
[52] Fiesole, May 21 and July 18, 1479, in Prose volgari, pp. 71-74. Several Latin epigrams to Lorenzo (ibid. pp. 123, 124) are of this period.
[53] Prose volgari, p. 127 (‘O ego quam cupio reducis contingere dextram’).
[54] Latini dettati a Piero de’ Medici, 1481, ibid. pp. 17-41.
[55] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 280.
[56] Epist. xii. 7.
[57] D. M. Manni, Bartholomei Scalæ Collensis vita, Flor. 1768. Scala’s Florentine History, now completely forgotten, appeared at Rome in 1677. The Laurentiana contains a MS. collection of letters, poems, &c., by him, to and on Cosimo the elder, and dedicated to Lorenzo (cf. Moreni, Bibliographia, ii. 321).
[58] Ang. Pol. Epist. xii. 17.
[59] Accolti (on whom cf. Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p. 442 seq.) died in 1466, aged 51; the seals were not delivered to Scala till March 1473, so they must have been put into commission (Manni, l. c. 15). Accolti’s dialogue, De præstantia virorum sui ævi, which, in spite of the many reservations made by the author from personal motives, will deserve regard as the work of a man in high position, was first printed by Ben. Bacchini, Parma, 1689, and later by Galletti in Philippi Villani Liber, p. 97 seq.