Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) / Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630

by James Dennistoun

[259] From a league between Count Antonio, of Urbino, and Barnabo Visconti, of Milan, in 1376 (MSS. Oliveriana, No. 374, vol. I., p. 1), we gather an isolated notice. Free import from the territory of Urbino into Florence was stipulated for all sorts of grain, fruit, and vegetables, the customary duties being paid upon wheat, oats, and barley.

[260] Series II., vol. II., p. 337, from a MS. in the Siena Library, K. iii. 58: it is dated 1579, but contains posterior entries.

[261] The word used is colte, which might mean crops.

[262] Fabbriche might mean only shops.

[263] Vat. Urb. MSS., No. 935.

[264] Ibid.

[265] Vat. Ottob. MSS., No. 3135, f. 279.

[266] Ibid., f. 277, 321.

[267] Vol. LXVI., pp. 3-10.

[*268] The Pitti portrait is an inferior replica of that in the Tribune of the Uffizi.