Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) / The Revival of Learning

by John Addington Symonds

[136] Ibid. p. 252. Cosimo ordered his clerks to honour all drafts presented with the signature of one of the chief brethren of the convent. 'Aveva ordinato al banco, che tutti i danari, che gli fussino tratti per polizza d'uno religioso de primi del convento, gli pagasse, e mettessegli a suo conto, e fussino che somma si volessino.'

[137] Vespasiano, pp. 264, 475.

[138] Vespasiano, pp. 29, 264.

[139] Ibid. pp. 34, 265.

[140] See Vespasiano's Life of Nicholas V. p. 26.

[141] Vita di Cosimo, p. 254.

[142] See Von Reumont, vol. i. p. 578.

[143] Vita di Cosimo, p. 266.

[144] Condensed from Vespasiano, p. 258.

[145] What follows I have based on Vespasiano's Life of Niccolo. Poggio's Funeral Oration, and his letter to Carlo Aretino on the death of his friend Niccolo, are to the same effect. Poggii Opera, pp. 270, 342.