Lives of the early Medici

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[257] Ibid.

[258] In the Val di Sieve, not far from Cafaggiuolo.

[259] Laurentii Medicis Vita, op. cit. ii. 199.

[260] Affetti di Famiglia, &c., op. cit.

[261] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza xxx. No. 70.

[262] Married to Bernardo Rucellai.

[263] The paper is torn.

[264] Carteggio Medicis, Filza di documenti fuori posto, No. 73.

[265] Lucrezia, to whom Poliziano grudges the title of madonna, was Lorenzo’s daughter, afterwards the wife of Jacopo Salviati. She was much attached to her grandmother Lucrezia.

[266] Bernardo Michelozzi, son of the great architect and sculptor, brother of Lorenzo’s chancellor. He was known as Bernardo Rhetor on account of his learning and eloquence. Giovanni de’ Medici, afterwards Leo X., to whom he was tutor, made him Cameriere segreto, and in 1516 Bishop of Forlì, and allowed him to assume the name and the arms of the house of Medici.