[89] The Dieci di Balia, Florence, January 14, 1432, in Fabroni, Cosmi Med. Vita, ii. 8.
[90] Guicciardini, Del reggimento di Firenze, p. 209.
[91] Fabroni, Historia Academiæ Pisanæ, i. 109 seq.; Laur. Med. Vita, i. 49. Many other references to the University, ibid. ii. 74 seq. Carlo de’ Massimi, Carmen heroicum ad Laurentium Medicem de studio per eumden Pisis innovato, from a Laurentian MS., in Bandini, Laur. Cat., vol. iii., and Roscoe, iii. 237 seq. (No. lviii.)
[92] Fabroni, Laur. Med. Vita, ii. 77.
[93] Rosmini, Vita di Fr. Filelfo, ii 191.
[94] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 75, 76.
[95] Camillo Massimo, Sopra una inedita medaglia di Francesco Massimo dottore in legge e cavaliere, Rome, 1860. Francesco Massimo was elected Podestà of Siena in 1477, but could not assume the office owing to the death of his father. That he was in Florence in 1488-89, engaged in affairs of state, is shown by the following letter from Lorenzo to Giovanni Lanfredini at Rome: ‘Messer Francesco Massimi is going back, having gained the approval of the whole city as well as my own. He has in truth conducted himself so well that I have thought good to recommend him to his Holiness and to the Cardinal Giovanni Colonna. I do the same to you, and beg you to bear witness that his conduct could not have been more praiseworthy. In consideration of his good offices I shall be glad if you will introduce him wherever it may be agreeable to him.’ Florence, March 13, 1489 (Med. Arch. Filza 59).
[96] The Annales suorum temporum were printed by Gio. Lami in the Catalogus codd. MSS. bibl. Riccard., Livorno, 1756; and again by Galletti, in Phil. Villani liber, &c., p. 151 seq. According to a letter of Fonti to Lorenzo, he once intended writing a history of the Medici. He praised the chief scholars of his time in a pretty epigram, ibid. p. 153.
[97] Gaye, l. c. i. 273.
[98] Med. Arch., Filza 59.