Lives of the early Medici

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[40] Ginevra Cavalcanti, wife of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Cosimo’s younger brother.

[41] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza xvi. No. 8.

[42] Cosmi Vita., op. cit. ii. 135.

[43] Cosmi Vita, op. cit. ii. 161.

[44] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza viii. No. 336.

[45] Addressed on the outside of the letter: Giovanni di Chosimo de Medici in Sienna o al Bagnio a Petriulo. (Archivio Mediceo innanzi il Principato, Filza 8, No. 336.)

[46] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza. v. Avanzi, No. 274.

[47] VII Lettere di Contessina Bardi nei Medici, per nozze Zanichelli-Mariotti. Edizione di lxxv. esemplari. September 6, 1886.

[48] A long, loose robe, generally tied round the waist, worn by Florentine citizens in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Mettersi il lucco became a common saying for putting on fine clothes.

[49] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza ix. No. 262.