[197] Giovanni (afterwards Pope Leo X.) was born on the 11th December.
[198] Prose Volgari inedite, &c., di Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano, Isidoro Del Lungo. Barbera, Firenze, 1867.
[199] Ibid., op. cit.
[200] Del Bagno a Morba, Ricordi Storici e Letterari, Luigi Righetti. Roma.
[201] The Duchess of Ferrara, wife of Ercole, Duke of Ferrara, and daughter of Ferrante I., King of Naples. She passed through Pisa on her way to Naples to attend her father’s marriage with Giovanna d’Aragona.
[202] The meaning of this word is obscure. Some suggest that it is a kind of fish, others that it is the name of a wine. I think Lucrezia jokingly asked her son to send her some cool sea-wind. The peasants still call the west wind which blows from the sea marino.
[203] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza xxxiv. No. 133.
[204] Affetti di Famiglia nel Quattrocento, Gugliemo Volpi, Vita Nuova, No. 503.
[205] Prose Volgari, &c., op. cit.
[206] Son of her daughter Nannina, wife of Bernardo Rucellai.