[4] Le Istorie Fiorentine, Niccolò Machiavelli, p. 240. Firenze, 1900.
[5] Vita di Cosimo, Vespasiano, p. 254. Symonds’ translation, Renaissance in Italy, ii. 127. London, 1897.
[6] Ibid., ii. 228.
[7] Ginevra Cavalcanti, wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Cosimo’s brother, and her son, Pier Francesco.
[8] Lorenzo de’ Medici, Cosimo’s brother.
[9] Crusaders returning to Italy brought with them medals with the effigy of S. Helen. These were called Santelena, and gradually the name was given to other medals.
[10] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza xi. No. 233.
[11] Letter is addressed on the outside of the sheet:
[spectab]ili viro Averardo de
[Medic]is Oratori florentinorum