Part 34
[266] Bernardo Michelozzi, son of the great architect and sculptor, brother of Lorenzo’s chancellor. He was known as Bernardo Rhetor on account of his learning and eloquence. Giovanni de’ Medici, afterwards Leo X., to whom he was tutor, made him Cameriere segreto, and in 1516 Bishop of Forlì, and allowed him to assume the name and the arms of the house of Medici.
[267] _Prose Volgari inedite_, &c., _op. cit._ 72.
[268] Philippe de Comines.
[269] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 196.
[270] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza vii. No. 369.
[271] _Vita di Filippo Strozzi il Vecchio scritta da Lorenzo suo figlio_, Giuseppe Bini e Pietro Bigazzi, p. 55. Florence, 1851.
[272] Muratori, ix. 533.
[273] _Lettere e Notizie di Lorenzo de’ Medici._ From the Archivio Palatino of Modena, published in a pamphlet by Antonio Cappelli. (This letter has been published before but not correctly.)
[274] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 200.
[275] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 202 _et seq._
[276] Ibid. ii. 204.
[277] Cooked cheese.
[278] Three hectolitres.
[279] Letter torn.
[280] Ten hectolitres.
[281] _Carte Medicee_, &c., Filza xxxiv. No. 320.
[282] _Vita Laurentii Medicis_, op. cit. ii. 223.
[283] The fall of Otranto mentioned in this letter was such a godsend to Lorenzo that he was suspected of being in league with the Turk. It forced the King of Naples to recall his son, the Duke of Calabria, from Siena, where he had aided the nobles to overthrow the popular government, and the Pope to cancel the interdict and make peace with Florence. In November an embassy, with old Luigi Guicciardini at its head, went to Rome and were solemnly reprimanded by Sixtus and then blessed. The only condition he imposed was the equipment of fifteen galleys to serve against the Turk.
[284] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxxiv. No. 367.
[285] _Lucrezia Tornabuoni_, op. cit.
[286] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza, No. 43, inside No. 150.
[287] Giovanni Albino, a Neapolitan, historian and politician, and a great friend of Lorenzo.
[288] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 216.
[289] _Lettere e Notizie di Lorenzo de’ Medici_, Archivio Palatina di Modena, published in a pamphlet by Antonio Cappelli.
[290] Bernardo Bandini was one of the men who assassinated Giuliano de’ Medici in the cathedral of Florence. He fled to Constantinople and was arrested by permission of the Sultan through the agency of Frescobaldi, Florentine ambassador to the Porte.
[291] Count Girolamo Riario, the Pope’s nephew, was implicated in the Pazzi conspiracy to murder the two brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici.
[292] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., _op cit._, Arch. Pal. di Modena.
[293] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[294] Ibid.
[295] Ibid.
[296] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 236.
[297] Andrea Zuccalmaglio, Archbishop of Krain.
[298] An old Italian dance.
[299] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 227.
[300] _Laurentius Medicis Vita_, ii. 229.
[301] _Lorenzo de Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 232.
[302] Guicciardini throws some doubt on Riario’s presence.
[303] For a full account of the Ferrarese war see _Lorenzo de’ Medici_, Alfred von Reumont, ii. 249 _et seq._; _A History of the Papacy_, &c., Dr. Creighton, iv. 100 _et seq._; _Lorenzo de’ Medici_, &c., E. Armstrong, M.A, 182 _et seq._
[304] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 298.
[305] Bartolommeo Scala, born at Colle 1430, was the son of a miller. “I came to the Republic,” he wrote, “bare of all things, a mere beggar, of the lowest birth, without money, rank, connections, or kindred. Cosimo, the Father of his country, raised me up by receiving me into his family.” He became Chancellor of Florence and is known for his feud with Poliziano.
[306] O lovely maiden.
[307] Thou art as fair as the light of the sun.
[308] _Arch. di Stato Carte Strozziane_, Filza cxxxviii. No. 57.
[309] _Arch._ &c., Carte Strozziane, Filza cxxxviii. No. 58.
[310] The abbey of Fonte Doulce, bestowed by the King of France on Giovanni de’ Medici, Lorenzo’s second son, which gift the Pope hesitated to confirm on account of the child’s youth.
[311] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 256.
[312] Lorenzo’s sister, married to Gugliemo de’ Pazzi.
[313] A piece of letter torn out.
[314] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxxix. No. 84.
[315] Lorenzo and his wife were coming from Bagno a Morba; he went to Pisa, and she came home to Florence.
[316] A favourite groom of Lorenzo de’ Medici, mentioned also in _La Caccia al Falcone_.
[317] Lorenzo de’ Medici’s sister, married to Bernardo Rucellai.
[318] Paper-mills were flourishing at Colle in the second half of the fifteenth century. See _Dizionario della Toscana_, E. Repetti, _i._ 758.
[319] A much-prized white Tuscan wine.
[320] The two future Popes, Leo X. and Clement VII. Giulio was the illegitimate son of Giuliano, Lorenzo’s brother, murdered in the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo’s second son, Giovanni, destined for the Church, had received the tonsure at seven years old, and was always spoken of as Messer Giovanni.
[321] The Squarcialupi, surnamed degli Organi, great musicians of the fifteenth century.
[322] The boy’s play upon words is not easy to understand, it may mean a Catalonian.
[323] _Un Viaggio di Clarice Orsini de’ Medici_, &c., Scelta di Curiosità Letterarie inedite o rare, Gaetano Romagnoli. Bologna, 1868.
[324] This codex had belonged to Battista Guarino and was highly valued and jealously guarded. The Duke refused to send it to Florence but allowed Lorenzo to have it copied by a Greek scribe he sent to Ferrara. Three years later Lorenzo asked the Duke to lend for a few days the translation of the book by Dione Cassio (Dionysius Cassius) made for the Duke by Niccolò Leoniceno. Again afraid to trust the manuscript out of his hands, he had a copy made in all haste by divers scribes, and sent it as a present to Lorenzo, on the condition that he was neither to lend it nor to allow it to be published. The translation was printed for the first time in Venice in 1532, the Greek original in Paris in 1548.
[325] _Lettere_, &c., Arch. Palatina di Modena, _op. cit._
[326] _Lettere e Notizie_, Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[327] Ibid, p. 291.
[328] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[329] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xliii. No. 176.
[330] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[331] Ibid.
[332] Ibid.
[333] Ibid.
[334] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[335] Ibid.
[336] Pietro Leoni was Lorenzo de’ Medici’s physician, and either drowned himself or was thrown into a well near Careggi when Lorenzo died.
[337] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[338] Ferdinand, or Ferrante, King of Naples.
[339] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[340] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[341] Alfonso, son of the King of Naples.
[342] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[343] Ibid.
[344] _Lettere di Lorenzo il Magnifico al Sommo Pontefice Innocenzo VIII._, Canonico D. Moreni. Firenze, 1830.
[345] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[346] Ibid.
[347] Count Girolamo Riario, nephew of the late Pope Sixtus, cruel and despotic, had been murdered by his subjects, and his wife Caterina, an illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Sforza, taken prisoner with her three sons. The castle of Ravaldino which commanded the town still held out, and the insurgents allowed her to go to the commandant on the pretence that she would induce him to surrender, leaving her children as hostages in their hands. Once inside the castle she defied the people, and when they threatened to kill her children replied, according to Guicciardini, “Are you not fools, cannot you see that I can have others?” Milanese troops were sent by Lodovico Sforza and the little boys were saved.
[348] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[349] _Prose Volgari inedite_, &c., _op. cit._ p. 74.
[350] _Arch. Stor. Ital._, Serie terza, ix. 48, Parte I.
[351] _Vita e Fatti d’Innocenzo VIII._, Scritta per Messer Francesco Serdonati, fiorentino, &c. Milano, Ferrario, 1829, 59 _et seq._
[352] Ten years before Girolamo Riario had taken Piancaldoli from Florence during the war between Sixtus and Lorenzo. Lodovico Sforza was furious at this success of the Florentine arms, but could do nothing.
[353] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[354] The Manfredi were lords of Faenza, which was under the protection of Florence. Galeotto Manfredi had been murdered by his jealous wife, Francesca Bentivoglio, and the citizens, afraid to lose their freedom, had taken her, and her father who had come from Bologna to her assistance, prisoners, and slain the Milanese general sent by Sforza. Lorenzo took the part of the murdered man’s young son Astorre, and Giovanni Bentivoglio was kept a prisoner for some weeks at Modigliana, while his daughter Francesca was sent to Bologna to her mother.
[355] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op cit._
[356] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[357] Ibid.
[358] Clarice was consumptive.
[359] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[360] _Lettere di Lorenzo de’ Medici a Innocenzo VIII._, op. cit. 18.
[361] _Lettere_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[362] Ibid.
[363] _Lettere_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[364] Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, married his cousin, Isabella of Naples, daughter of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria. Lorenzo de’ Medici was ill, so Piero, his son, met the Duchess at Leghorn, and then went to Milan to attend the marriage festivities.
[365] Florentine ambassador to Milan.
[366] Piero de’ Medici’s device, invented by Poliziano, was a _broncone_ or bough (in Nestor’s drawing it looks more like a hurdle) in flames, with the motto, _In Viridi Teneras Flamma Medúlas Exudit_, signifying that his love was so strenuous and incomparable that it would even set fire to green wood. _Histoire des Hommes Illustres de la Maison de Medici._ Jean Nestor, 1564.
[367] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 296.
[368] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 394.
[369] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., ii. 300.
[370] _Lettere di Lorenzo a Innocenzo VIII._, op. cit. 14.
[371] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[372] Ibid.
[373] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. de Modena, _op. cit._
[374] Ibid.
[375] Francesco Cibò, the Pope’s son, married to Maddalena de’ Medici, Lorenzo’s daughter.
[376] _Lettere di Lorenzo a Innocenzo VIII._, op. cit.
[377] _Lettere e Notizie_, Arch. Pal. di Modena, p. 315.
[378] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 293.
[379] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxiv. No. 502.
[380] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 292.
[381] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xliii. No. 157. (The date is uncertain, as there is a blot of ink on the figure 8. A rough copy in Lorenzo’s handwriting.)
[382] _Laurentii Medicis Vita, &c._, _op. cit._ ii. 344.
[383] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xviii. No. 19.
[384] Ibid., xliii. No. 139.
[385] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xli. No. 531.
[386] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 293. (By some mistake Fabroni gives the date as August 1492. Lorenzo died on April 8 of that year.) During a visit to Rome in 1486 Pico della Mirandola had promulgated nine hundred theses on theology, philosophy, magic, and the Cabbalah, which he offered to maintain in public disputation. Heresies contained in them were pointed out by his enemies and Innocent VIII. issued a Brief against those considered as dangerous. Pico fled to France and published an apology protesting his orthodoxy, but it was only by Lorenzo’s influence that the Pope was induced to suspend proceedings. Pico then returned to Florence and Lorenzo, as this and the two former letters show, pressed the Pope hard to grant his friend a full pardon.
[387] _Laurentii Medicis Vita, &c._, ii. 365 _et seq._
[388] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xliii. No. 142 (draft of letter in Lorenzo’s handwriting without date).
[389] A Greek scribe employed by Lorenzo in copying.
[390] _Prose Volgari inedite_, &c., _op. cit._ 78.
[391] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 90.
[392] _Acqua arzente_ in modern Italian is the name given to water with nitrous acid in it and is used to clean silver. It is poisonous. Piero Leoni evidently suspected something wrong (perhaps poisonous) in a certain water which had been recommended to Lorenzo. He advises him to go back to his old waters until he analyses the new water.
[393] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 91.
[394] _Un Cortigiano di Lorenzo il Magnifico_, Gugliemo Volpi. Estratto del Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, 1891, xvii. 229.
[395] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[396] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[397] Ibid.
[398] Ibid.
[399] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[400] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 308 _et seq._
[401] Paper torn.
[402] _Life of Leo X._, W. Roscoe, Appendix i. 408. H. G. Bohn, London, 1853.
[403] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. i. 199 _et seq._
[404] _Epistola di Fra Placido Cinozzi_ in _Scelta di Prediche e Scritti di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, con nuovi documenti intorno alla sua vita_, P. Villari e E. Casanuova. G. C. Sansoni, Firenze, 1898, p. 16. The _Biographia Latina_ of Savonarola follows Cinozzi’s account, citing Fra Silvestro and Fra Domenico, an ardent adherent of Savonarola, as authorities. The same story, with additions, is given by the biographers of Savonarola, Pico della Mirandola (a nephew of Lorenzo’s friend) and Burlamacchi. “There is,” says Creighton, “no evidence that Pico, the earliest of them, had written his book before 1520; whether Burlamacchi wrote independently or merely re-edited Pico is a question open to discussion.”
[405] Dei gives wrong dates. Lorenzo was born on January 1, 1449 (1450).
[406] _Archivio Storico Italiano_, Serie v. Tomo iv., Dispensa 5 e 6 del 1889, p. 258.
INDEX
A
Acciaiuoli, Agnolo, 19, 57; reason of his hatred of the Medici, 83, 84; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici, 105; secretly recalled by Piero de’ Medici, 142; 153
Alamanni, Piero, Florentine ambassador at Rome; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on Giovanni’s nomination to the Cardinalate, 303
Alberti, Alberto de’, letter from, to Giovanni de’ Medici on the state of Rome, 47
Albino, Giovanni, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 240
Albizzi, Rinaldo degl’, 13, 19, 20, 26, 28
Aldrovandini, Guidone, Ferrarese ambassador to Florence, letter from, to the Duke Ercole d’Este, 274; letter to, from the Duke, 276; letter from, to the Duke about Lorenzo de’ Medici and the state of Florence, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 294, 295, 297, 298
Alum, monopoly of, given to the Medici, 98; 104, 306
Ammanati, Jacopo, Cardinal of Pavia, 163; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici on the Cardinalate for Giuliano, 167, 168
Ammirato, Scipione, quoted, 7
Angoulême, Marguerite d’, Queen of Navarre, 114
Antonino, Archbishop, on slavery, 29
Aragona, Don Federigo d’, meets Lorenzo de’ Medici at Pisa, 87; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the old Tuscan poets, 88; 94_n_, 146
---- Cardinal d’, 259, 260, 263
Artimino, Papinio di, letters to Lucrezia de’ Medici on the Turkish army in Apulia, 237, 238
Avogarius, Doctor Petrus Bonus, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 301
B
Baccio, Ugolino, 245; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici about the Archbishop of Krain, 247, 249, 252; 274; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 278; 314, 316
Baldovinetti, quoted, on slaves, 30
Basel, Œcumenical Council of, transferred to Ferrara and Florence, 41, 42; Archbishop of Krain at, 247, 249, 252
Becchi, Gentile, of Urbino (Bishop of Arezzo), 111, 133; letter from, to Clarice de’ Medici describing Lorenzo’s journey to Milan, 138; 143, 155, 170, 214
Bentivoglio, Giovanni di, letter from, to Piero de’ Medici about the League against Venice and the Pope, 135; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 202
C
Cafaggiuolo, Villa of, 4, 19, 60, 74; Clarice de’ Medici and her children at, 213, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222
Caiano, Poggio a, Villa of, flood at, described in _Ambra_, 147; 155
Calabria, Alfonso, Duke of, 59, 200, 206, 207, 231, 232, 240, 254, 274, 284
---- Ippolita Maria d’Aragona, Duchess of, 87, 93_n_; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 236
Cambi, Giovanni, quoted, 56, 61
Capponi, Marquess Gino, quoted, 150
Careggi, Villa of, 27; Count of Pavia at, 61; last months of Cosimo de’ Medici at, 73, 74, 75; death of Cosimo de’ Medici at, 78; 81, 84, 137; death of Piero de’ Medici at, 142; 152, 181, 217, 223, 291, 336; death of Lorenzo de’ Medici at, 339, 340, 341
Catasto, 5; description of the, 164_n_
Cavalcanti, Giovanni, quoted, 6
Ceccho, Messer, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 201; 203, 204, 207, 208
Cinozzi, Fra Pacifico, 339; account of the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici by, 340
Comines, Philippe de, 149_n_, 193, 202, 226; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 312
Creighton, Dr., quoted, 150
Cristofano d’Antonio, Fra, letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici about her grandchildren, 172
D
Dei, Bartolommeo, letter from, to his uncle on the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 341
Dennistoun, J., quoted, 136_n_
Dovizi da Bibbiena, Piero, letters to, from Matteo Franco, 289, 327
E
Este, Duke Borso d’, 176
---- Eleonora d’, Duchess of Ferrara, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the death of his mother, 244
---- Ercole d’, Duke of Ferrara, 135, 241; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on his mother’s death, 244; 254; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 273; letter to, from his ambassador Aldrovandini, 274; letter from, to Aldrovandini, 276; letters to, from Aldrovandini, 277, 280, 282, 283, 285, 294, 297, 298; letters to, from his ambassador Manfredi, 305, 309, 330
Eugenius IV., Pope, 26_n_; arrival of at Florence for Œcumenical Council, 41; Lorenzo de’ Medici (brother to Cosimo) sent to Ferrara to, 42
F
Ferrante, or Ferdinando, King of Naples, 53, 125, 128, 129, 135, 158, 159, 160, 163, 170, 176, 195, 196, 197, 199, 202, 227, 228, 229_n_, 230, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 283, 284, 286, 298, 305, 313, 314, 315, 316, 319, 320; words of, on hearing of the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 343
Festival on St. John’s Day, 95
Ficino, Marsilio, selected to preside over the Platonic Academy, 57; letter to, from Cosimo de’ Medici, 73; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici describing his grandfather Cosimo, 76; 143
Filelfo, Francesco, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 166
Florence, Signoria of, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici announcing his departure for Naples, 229
Fortebraccio, Niccolò, letter from, to Cosimo de’ Medici, 34; 36, 37, 39, 40
France, King of, _see_ Louis XI.
Franco, Matteo, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 173; letters from, to Piero Dovizi describing Clarice’s journey from Morba, 267; from the baths of Stigliano, 289; from Rome, 327
Frederick II., Emperor, entry of into Florence, 56; 248, 249, 250, 251, 253
G
Gibbon, Edward, quoted, 7
I
Innocent VIII., Pope, election of, 258; 261, 262, 265, 283, 284; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 285; 286, 287, 294; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the death of his wife, 296; 298, 303; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the promotion of his son Giovanni to the Cardinalate, 304; letter to, from the same on the condition of F. Cibò, 306; 310, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 328, 335, 336
J
John XXIII., Pope, 7
K
Krain, Archbishop of, 245; proclaims a Council at Basel, 246; 247, 249, 252
L
Landucci, Luca, quoted, 165_n_
Lanfredini, Giovanni, Florentine ambassador at Venice, then at Rome, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the war with the Pope and Venice, 196; letters to, from the same about Pico della Mirandola, 311, 318, 319
Lapini, quoted, on slave girls, 30_n_
Leoni, Doctor Piero, 283, 323, 324; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici on various waters, 326; 329, 336; suicide of, 342
Louis XI., King of France, 84; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici creating him a privy councillor, 85; document from, granting Piero de’ Medici the privilege of quartering the Lily of France on his arms, 86; 152, 155, 156, 186; letter from, to the Florentine Republic on the Pazzi conspiracy, 192; letter from, to Sixtus IV., on the same, 193; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 198; 206, 226, 227; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 254; 285
Lucca, war against, 13, 15, 16, 18; end of war against, 19; war renewed against, 33
M
Machiavelli, Girolamo, 58
---- Niccolò, quoted, 7, 28, 33, 82, 105, 145, 186, 208
Malegonnelle, Piero, letters from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici about Morba, 184
Manfredi, Manfredo di, Ferrarese ambassador to Florence; letters from, to Duke Ercole d’Este, 305, 330
Medici, ancestors of the, 1
---- Ardingo de’, 2
---- Averardo de’, fabulous, 1
---- ---- Gonfalonier of Justice in 1314, 2
---- ---- (cousin of Cosimo), letters to, from Cosimo, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26
---- Bank of the, manager of the, to Duke Ercole d’Este, 309
---- Bernardo de’, 17, 23
---- Bianca de’, 7, 109; letter from, to her mother Lucrezia, 223; 265, 330
---- Bonagiunta de’, 2
---- Carlo de’ (illegitimate son of Cosimo), 38, 132
---- Chiarissimo de’, 2
---- Clarice de’, 128; marriage festivities of, 129; letter to, from Rinaldo Orsini, 134; letter to, from Gentile Becchi, 138; letter to, from Lorenzo, 161; 173; letters to, from Poliziano, 177, 178; letter from, to Lorenzo, 178; 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 217; letter from, to Lorenzo on Poliziano, 218; 266, 268, 270, 288, 290, 291; death of, 296, 297; 298
---- Contessina de’, letter from, to her husband Cosimo, 10; letter from, to her son Giovanni, 14; letters from, to her son Piero, 48, 50; letters from, to her son Giovanni, 51, 53, 54, 55; letter from, to Ginevra, 58; letter from, to her son Piero, 62; letter from, to her son Giovanni and his wife, 62; 71, 74, 80, 109, 111, 113; letter from, to Lucrezia, 117; 125, 141, 157; letter to, from A. de’ Conio, 158; 162, 172, 173
---- Contessina de’, daughter of Lorenzo, 220; letter to, from her father, 310
---- Cosimo de’ (Pater Patriæ), 6; description of by Machiavelli, 7; generosity of, to men of letters, 8; Vespasiano on, 9; letter to, from his wife, 10; letter from, to his cousin Averardo on Milanese matters, 11; letters from, to the same on the war with Lucca, 15, 16, 18; diary of, 19; return of, from exile, 28; letter from, to his son Piero at Venice, 31; goes to Venice, 33; letter to, from Niccolò Fortebraccio, 34; letter to, from his brother Lorenzo, 35; letters to, from Count Francesco Sforza about Fortebraccio and the Duke of Milan, 36, 38, 39, 41; letter to, from the same about Foligno, 44; 50, 51; letter from, to his son Giovanni on the war between Venice and Milan, 52; 53, 54, 56, 57; speech of, to Luca Pitti, 58; letter from, to his son Giovanni, 59; 60; home life of, 61; 62; letter from, to his son Giovanni, 63; letter to, from Pius II. on the death of Giovanni, 64; letters from, to Pius II., 65, 66; letter from, to his son Piero, 70; assistance given by, to Francesco Sforza, 71; document from Francesco Sforza bestowing privileges on, 71; letter from, to Ficino, 73; last illness of, 74; character of, by Ficino, 76; memorandum on death of, by his son Piero, 77; note of expenses for funeral of, 79; declared Pater Patriæ, 81; 82, 83, 84; praise of, by Pius II., 84; condolence on death of, by Louis XI., 85; 144, 151, 152