[50] Arch. Med. ante Prin., Filza xvi. No. 30.

[51] The letter is addressed in a different handwriting: Spettabili Viro Piero di Chosimo de’ Medici, Magnifico onorando in Firenze. (Arch., &c., Filza 13, No. 20.)

[52] Her younger son.

[53] VII. Lettere, &c., op. cit.

[54] Ibid.

[55] Cosimo’s illegitimate son by a slave-girl.

[56] “Pieve,” chief church of a parish, and the only one where baptisms took place.

[57] Cosmi Vita, op. cit. ii. 194.

[58] VII. Lettere, &c., op. cit.

[59] VII. Lettere, &c., op. cit.