[30] Most of the facts are taken from Le Schiave Orientali a Firenze nei Secoli XIV. e XV., Saggio dì Agostino Zanelli. Firenze, 1885.
[31] Perhaps an abbreviation of Cornaro.
[32] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza xiv. No. 469.
[33] Le Istorie Fiorentine, N. Machiavelli, p. 242. Firenze, 1900.
[34] Alluding to the old proverb, Fiorentini ciechi, Senesi matti, Pisani traditori, Lucchesi signori. Niccolò Fortebraccio, formerly in the service of the Florentine Republic, was the great rival of Francesco Sforza. These two condottieri had both seized on separate portions of the Marches, and while Sforza’s fortress was Ancona, Assisi was that of Fortebraccio. The two captains fought for the mastery in the Marches, and in the end Fortebraccio was defeated and slain.
[35] Cosmi Vita, &c., op. cit. ii. 110 (Ex Filza 18).
[36] Cosmi Vita, &c., op. cit. ii. 133.
[37] Cosmi Vita, &c., op. cit. ii. 131.
[38] Ibid., ii. 126.
[39] Cosmi Vita, &c., op. cit. ii. 124.