[411] Tonelli, vol. ii. p. 122, 123.
[412] An eulogiam of Cosmo de’ Medici, written by Niccolo of Foligni, is preserved in the Laurentian library. Mehi Vita Amb. Trav. tom. i. p. lxxiii.
[413] The reader of Joe Miller will remember that this story has, in its descent to modern times, received divers improvements.
[414] See a long and elaborate letter of Leonardo’s on this subject in the collection of epistles published by Mehus, Lib. vi. ep. x.
[415] It appears from the introduction to the second part of the Historia discept. conviv. (Poggii Opera, p. 37) that Poggio wrote two treatises, the one in commendation of the art of medicine, and the other in praise of the science of law. A MS. copy of the treatise in laudem legum is preserved in the Laurentian library. Bandini Catalogus, tom. ii. p. 408.
[416] Poggii Epistolæ lvii. epist. xlvii.
[417] Tiraboschi Storia della Letter. Ital. tom. vi. part 2d, p. 329.
[418] See Ton. Tr. tom. ii. p. 138.
[419] Recanati Vita Poggii, p. xvii.-xix. The trading companies of Florence seem to have been constituted in the same manner as those into which the citizens of London are at this day subdivided.
[420] Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 456.