Lives of the early Medici

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[287] Giovanni Albino, a Neapolitan, historian and politician, and a great friend of Lorenzo.

[288] Laurentii Medicis Vita, op. cit. ii. 216.

[289] Lettere e Notizie di Lorenzo de’ Medici, Archivio Palatina di Modena, published in a pamphlet by Antonio Cappelli.

[290] Bernardo Bandini was one of the men who assassinated Giuliano de’ Medici in the cathedral of Florence. He fled to Constantinople and was arrested by permission of the Sultan through the agency of Frescobaldi, Florentine ambassador to the Porte.

[291] Count Girolamo Riario, the Pope’s nephew, was implicated in the Pazzi conspiracy to murder the two brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici.

[292] Lettere e Notizie, &c., op cit., Arch. Pal. di Modena.

[293] Lettere e Notizie, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, op. cit.

[294] Ibid.

[295] Ibid.

[296] Laurentii Medicis Vita, op. cit. ii. 236.