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

by Alfred von Reumont

[195] Del Migliore, l. c., p. 36. Richa, vi. 121. Monuments sépulcraux, plate vi. Inscription (attributed to Lorenzo):

MULTUM PROFECTO DEBET MUSICA ANTONIO
SQUARCIALUPO ORGANISTE IS ENIM ITA ARTI
GRATIAM CONIUNXIT UT QUARTAM SIBI VID
ERENTUR CHARITES MUSICAM ASCIVISSE SO
ROREM FLORENTINA CIVITAS ORATI ANIMI
OFFICIUM RATA EIUS MEMORIAM PROPAGARE
CUIUS MANUS SEPE MORTALES IN DULCEM AD
MIRATIONEM ADDUXERAT CIVI SUO MONU
MENTUM POSUIT.

[196] Engraved in seven plates by G. P. Lasinio (Flor. 1823). Mellini’s bust is in the Uffizi collection.

[197] Monuments sépulcraux, plate liii.

[198] Monuments sépulcraux, plate xxiv. Inscription: ‘Bernardo Junio eq^ti Flor^no pu^aes concordiæ. semper. auctori. et. civi. vere. populari. pii. fratres. fratri. de. se. deq. rep^ea opt^o merito. posuerunt.—Vixit ann. LXVIIII. men. VI. di. XII. Obiit ann. MCCCCLXVI. Opus Mini.—Cf. i. 145.

[199] Paradiso, xvi. 127. Monuments sépulcraux, plate xxiv.

[200] Monuments sépulcraux, plate xlv. Cf. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, iii. 230.

[201] Represented in Cicognara, vol. ii. plate xv.

[202] Plates and details in Cicognara, Litta, and Colas’ Trésor de Numismatique et de Glyptique. See Vasari’s Life of Pisanello, ii. 152, et seq. On Guazzalotti, see Julius Friedländer (Berlin, 1857), trans. by Cesare Guasti (Prato, 1862), with notes and documents, among which is a letter from Guazzalotti to Lorenzo, dated September 11, 1478.

[203] V. da Bisticci, l. c., p. 476.