Lives of the early Medici

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[357] Ibid.

[358] Clarice was consumptive.

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

[360] Lettere di Lorenzo de’ Medici a Innocenzo VIII., op. cit. 18.

[361] Lettere, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, op. cit.

[362] Ibid.

[363] Lettere, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, op. cit.

[364] Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, married his cousin, Isabella of Naples, daughter of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria. Lorenzo de’ Medici was ill, so Piero, his son, met the Duchess at Leghorn, and then went to Milan to attend the marriage festivities.

[365] Florentine ambassador to Milan.

[366] Piero de’ Medici’s device, invented by Poliziano, was a broncone or bough (in Nestor’s drawing it looks more like a hurdle) in flames, with the motto, In Viridi Teneras Flamma Medúlas Exudit, signifying that his love was so strenuous and incomparable that it would even set fire to green wood. Histoire des Hommes Illustres de la Maison de Medici. Jean Nestor, 1564.