[131] Laurentii Medicis Vita, &c., vol. ii. p. 39.
[132] A Tuscan white wine still much prized.
[133] Donatello’s David. It was placed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio after the expulsion of Piero de’ Medici in 1494 and is now in the Bargello.
[134] Tela di Renza, or Rensa, so-called because it came from Rheims in France.
[135] The illegitimate son of Cosimo, canon of the cathedral of Florence.
[136] Gentile Becchi of Urbino, tutor to Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici, afterwards Bishop of Arezzo.
[137] Delle Nozze di Lorenzo de’ Medici con Clarice Orsini nel 1469. Informazione di Piero Parenti Fiorentino, per le Nozze di Florestano ed Elisa dei Conti di Larderel. In Firenze, 1870.
[138] Donne Medicee avanti il Principato, Berta Felice, Rassegna Nazionale.
[139] A. Fabronio, Laurentii Medicis Magnifici Vita, Annotationes et Monumenta, p. 45. Pisis, 1784.
In Memoirs of Dukes of Urbino, by J. Dennistoun, vol. i. p. 186, is the following passage: “Federigo’s [of Urbino] condotta in the papal service had just expired, leaving him free to consult the dictates of policy, his views as to which were stated in an appeal to Pietro de’ Medici on behalf of Rimini, in words which may almost be deemed prophetic. ‘I am constrained to believe that the Pontiff and the Venetian Signory intend to occupy Rimini and all Romagna, and eventually Bologna too. Rimini once lost, the rest will readily follow, and your lordship and the league may easily suppose where Bologna and Imola would then be. Those who will not resist such projects at first may have afterwards to pay a hundredfold, and God grant that it be to good purpose.’” Edited by Edward Hutton. John Lane, London, 1909.