Part 35
---- Filigno di Conte de’, Diary of, 2
---- Filippo de’, Archbishop of Pisa, letter from, to Piero about the marriage contract of Clarice Orsini, 120; letter from, to Lorenzo announcing marriage by proxy with Clarice Orsini, 127; 168
---- Giambuono, progenitor of the, 1
---- Ginevra de’ (Cavalcanti), wife of Lorenzo, Cosimo’s brother, 10, 41, 80
---- Ginevra de’ (degl’ Alessandri), wife of Giovanni, son of Cosimo, letter to, from Contessina, 62; 80
---- Giovanni de’, surnamed Bicci, popularity of, 5; advice to his sons on his deathbed, 6; 151
---- Giovanni de’, son of Cosimo, 14; letter to, from his mother, 46; letter to, from Alberto de’ Alberti from Rome, 47; letters to, from his mother, 47, 48, 51, 53, 55, 58, 62; letters to, from his father, 59, 63; death of, 63; 65, 151, 152
---- Giovanni de’, son of Lorenzo, 145; receives the tonsure, is declared capable of holding benefices at seven years of age, 155; 156, 216, 220, 222, 270, 271; promotion of, to the Cardinalate, 303, 304; receives the Cardinal’s hat, 331; letter of advice to, from his father, 332; letter from, to his father, 336
---- Giuliano de’, 69, 70, 80, 109, 111, 125, 134; tournament of, 166; 172; letter from, to his mother, 174; 186, 189; murder of, 190; description of, by Poliziano, 191; 192, 193, 215
---- Guccio de’, 2
---- Lorenzo de’, son of Giovanni Bicci de’, 6, 18, 21, 23, 26; letter from, to his brother Cosimo, 35; 40; sent to Ferrara to Eugenius IV. about transferring Œcumenical Council to Florence, 42; 151
---- Lorenzo de’, the Magnificent, letter to, and Giuliano, from his father, 74; letter to, from Marsilio Ficino, 76; 87; letter from, to Federigo d’Aragona on the old Tuscan poets, 88; letter to, from his father, instructions as to his behaviour at Milan, 93; 98, 99; letter to, from Luigi Pulci, 100; letters to, from his father on the death of the Duke of Milan, 102, 105; letter to, from Luigi Pulci, 107; 110; letters from, to his mother, 115, 116; letters to, from Luigi Pulci, 118, 119; 120; letters to, from his uncle about Clarice Orsini, 122, 123; letters to, from Clarice Orsini, 123, 125; tournament of, 126; letter to, from Rinaldo Orsini, 126; letter to, from Maddalena Orsini, 127; letter to, from the Archbishop of Pisa, 127; wedding festivities of, 129; 137; journey of, to Milan, 138; letter from, to his wife, 140; letter from, to his father, 141; education of, 143; description of, by Valori, 144; nature of, by Symonds, 144; interference of, with deposits in the Monte, 145; influence of L. B. Alberti on, 146; poetry of, 146; Dr. Creighton on, 149; Marquess Gino Capponi on, 150; _Ricordi_ of, 150; letter to from Poliziano, 156; letter to, from Pulci at Naples, 159; letter to, from his wife, 161; letter to, from Pulci, 162; letter from, to Sixtus IV., about making Giuliano a cardinal, 163; letter to, from Ingherami, 165; letter to, from Filelfo, 166; letters to, from the Cardinal of Pavia about the Cardinalate for Giuliano, 167, 168; letter to, from Franco, 173; letter to, from Bertoldo, 175; hawking of, at Pisa, 176, 177; letter to, from his wife, 178; letters to, from his mother at Morba, 179, 182, 183; Pazzi conspiracy against, 186; waxen images of, 191, 192; 193; letter from, to Soderini, 194; letter from, to Lanfredini, 196; letter from, to Louis XI., 198; letter from, to Bettini, 199; letter to, from Messer Ceccho, 201; letter from, to Bentivoglio, 202; letters from, to Morelli, 123, 207; letters to, from Poliziano at Pistoja, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212; letter from, to the King of Spain, 215; letters to, from Poliziano at Cafaggiuolo, 216, 217; letters to, from his son Piero, 216, 217; letter to, from his wife on dismissal of Poliziano, 218; letter from, to his mother, 219; letters to, from his son Piero, 219, 220, 221; letter to, from Pucci, 221; 223, 224, 225, 226; letter from, to Morelli about the Duke of Milan, 227; 228; letter from, to the Signoria of Florence on his departure for Naples, 229; letter from, to Montecatino, 230; letters to, from Scala, 231, 233, 234; letter to, from the Duchess of Calabria, 236; letter from, to the Doge of Venice, 239; letter from, to Albino, 240; 241, 244; letters from, to the Duke and Duchess d’Este on his mother’s death, 244; 246; letter to, from Federigo of Urbino, 246; letters to, from Baccio at Basel, 247, 249, 252; letter to, from Louis XI., 254; letter to, from Scala, with a poem, 255; letter to, from Vespucci about the election of Innocent VIII., 258; letter from, to his son Piero at Rome, 260; letter to, from Michelozzi, 265; letter from, to Duke Ercole d’Este, 273; 274, 276, 277; letter from, to Baccio, 278; 280, 281; anger of with Lodovico Sforza, 282, 283, 284; letter from, to Innocent VIII., 285; 286, 287; letter to, from Poliziano, 288; 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295; letter from, to Innocent VIII. on the death of his wife, 296; 297; letter to, from Stefano, 299; letter to, from Doctor Avogarius, 301; letter from, to Alamanni about Giovanni’s nomination as cardinal, 303; letter from, to Innocent VIII. on his son Giovanni’s nomination as cardinal, 304; 306; share of, in the Medici bank, 309; letters from, to Lanfredini, Florentine ambassador at Rome, about Pico della Mirandola, 310, 311, 318, 319; letter from, to his daughter Contessina, 310; letter from, to P. de Comines, 312; letter to, from Vettori, Florentine ambassador at Naples, 314; letter from, to his son Piero, 316; letter from, to the Commissaries of Pistoja, 317; letter from, to Andrea about a racehorse, 317; letter from, to the King of England, 322; letter to, from Poliziano, 323; letter to, from Pandolfini, Florentine ambassador at Rome, 325; letter to, from Doctor P. Leoni about various waters, 327; fortitude of, in bearing pain, 330, 331; last letter from, advice to his son Cardinal Giovanni at Rome, 332; letter to, from his son Cardinal Giovanni, 336
---- Lucrezia de’, 48; character of, 49; letter from, to her husband, 50; 51, 59; letters from, to her husband, 60, 61, 69, 74, 107; letters from, to her husband describing Clarice Orsini, 108, 109, 110, 111; buys the baths of Morba, 113, 114; letters to, from her son Lorenzo, 115, 116; letter to, from her husband, 115; letter to, from her mother-in-law, 117; letter to, from her husband, 117; 125, 130; letter to, from her husband on Lorenzo’s journey to Milan, 137; 141, 143, 151, 162; letter to, from the Syndic of Galatea, 171; letter to, from Fra Cristofano about her grandchildren, 172; letter to, from her son Giuliano, 174; letters from, to her son Lorenzo from Morba, 179; letters to, from her grandchild Lucrezia, 180, 222; letter to, from Poliziano, 181; letters from, to her son Lorenzo about her departure from Morba, 182, 183; letters to, from Vicar of Pomerance, 184; letter to, from Clarice, 213; letter to, from Poliziano at Cafaggiuolo, 213; letter to, from her son Lorenzo, 219; letter to, from her daughter Nannina Rucellai, 222; letter to, from her daughter Bianca de Pazzi, 223; letter to, from Poliziano, 224; letter to, from Doctor Oliverio, 235; letters to, from Papinio, 237, 238; death of, 244
---- Lucrezia de’, daughter of Lorenzo, 172; letter from, to her grandmother Lucrezia, 180; 181, 217, 220; letter from, to her grandmother, 222; 225
---- Nannina de’, marriage of, 106, 140; letter from, to her mother, 222
---- Piero de’, 14; letter to, from his father Cosimo, 31; letters to, from his mother, 40, 48, 49; letter to, from his wife, 50; 51, 55; goes to Milan to salute Duke Francesco Sforza, 56; letters to, from his wife, 60, 69; letter to, from his father, 70; letter from, to his sons on Cosimo’s last illness, 74; memorandum by, on his father’s death, 84; letter to, from Louis XI. on death of his father, 85; privilege given to, by Louis XI. to quarter the Lily of France on the Medici arms, 87; letters from, to his son Lorenzo at Rome, 102, 103; letter to, from Acciaiuoli, 105; letter from, to Acciaiuoli, 105; letters to, from his wife, describing Clarice Orsini, 108, 109, 111; letters from, to his wife, 115, 117; letter to, from Cardinal Latino Orsini, 120; letter to, from the Archbishop of Pisa, 120; letter from, to his wife, 137; letter to, from his son Lorenzo, 141; illness and death of, 142; 151, 154
---- Piero de’, son of Lorenzo, 153, 172, 209, 210, 211; letters from, to his father, 212, 216, 217, 219, 220, 225; letter to, from his father, 260; goes to Rome to meet his bride, 288; at Milan for the wedding of Duke Gian Galeazzo Sforza, 299; letter to, from his father, 316; at his father’s deathbed, 337; declared eligible for all offices, 343
---- Pier Francesco de’, 10, 50, 55, 63, 151, 152
---- Salvestro de’, leads the Florentine army against Giovanni Visconti, 4; advocates excluding the Guelph nobles from power, 5
Michelozzi, Niccolò, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 265
Milan, Dukes of, _see_ Visconti (to p. 56) then Sforza
Mirandola, Pico della, 208; letters about, from Lorenzo de Medici, 310, 311, 318; 319_n_, 324, 325; at the deathbed of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 338
Montecatino, Antonio, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 230
Montefeltro, Count Guido di, 13
Montesecco, Giovanni Battista da, 187; confession of, 188; refusal of, to murder Lorenzo de’ Medici in a church, 189
Morba, baths of, 111; description of, 112; 115, 116, 117, 179, 180, 182; bought by Lucrezia de’ Medici, 184; 235, 255; poem on, by Scala, 256; 265; Franco describes journey from, 267; 291
Morelli, Girolamo, Florentine ambassador at Milan, letters to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici about the war with Sixtus IV. and Naples, 203, 207, 227
N
Naples, King of, _see_ Ferrante, or Ferdinando
Neroni, Diotisalvi, tries to ruin Piero de’ Medici, 82; 83, 84, 99
Niccoli, Niccolò de’, library of, 8
O
Oliviero, Doctor, letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici about Morba, 235
Orsini, Alfonsina, 288, 290, 293, 311
---- Clarice, description of, by Lucrezia de’ Medici, 108, 109, 110; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 123, 125; marriage of, by proxy, 127; 128; marriage festivities of, at Florence, 129
---- Latino, Cardinal, 108; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici, 120; 263
---- Maddalena, 108, 124; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 127
---- Rinaldo, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 126; letter from, to Clarice, 134
---- Virginio, 278, 279, 280
P
Pandolfini, Pier Francesco, Florentine ambassador at Rome, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 325
Parentucelli, Tomasso, Bishop of Bologna, catalogues Niccoli’s library, 8
Pavia, Cardinal of, _see_ Ammanati
Pazzi, conspiracy of the, 186; letter of Louis XI. on, to the Florentine Republic, 192; letter from Louis XI. on, to Sixtus IV., 193
---- Bianca de’, letter to her mother Lucrezia de’ Medici, 223
---- Gugliemo de’, 71, 153, 265
Pisa, 69, 70; meeting of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Don Federigo d’Aragona at, 87; 92; meeting of Luigi Pulci and Duke of Calabria at, 118, 119; Giuliano de’ Medici at, 174; Lorenzo de’ Medici hawking at, 176, 177
Pitti, Luca, 56, 57; Gonfalonier of Justice in 1458, 58; Cosimo de’ Medici’s speech to, 58
Pius II., Pope, on Cosimo de’ Medici, 58; entry of, into Florence, 61; letter from, to Cosimo de’ Medici on his son’s death, 64; letter to, from Cosimo de’ Medici, 65; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici on his father’s death, 84
Poliziano, Agnolo, quoted, 9, 57; first letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 156; life and works of, 156_n_; letters from, to Clarice de’ Medici, 177, 178; letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici, 181; scene in cathedral when Giuliano de’ Medici was murdered described by, 190; Giuliano described by, 191; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici from Pistoja, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212; letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici from Cafaggiuolo 213; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 216, 217; letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici, 224; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 288; letter from, to the same from Padua, 323; 330; letter from, to Jacopo Antiquario, describing the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 336
Pope Eugenius IV., 26_n_; arrival of, in Florence for the Œcumenical Council, 41; 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 53
---- Innocent VIII., election of, 258; 260, 261, 262, 265; Lorenzo de’ Medici on, 277; 280, 282; cowardice of, 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; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the nomination of his son to the Cardinalate, 304; letter to, from the same about Francesco Cibò, 306; 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 316, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 335, 336
---- Paul II., 102, 104, 135
---- Pius II., 56; entry of, into Florence, 61; letter from, to Cosimo de’ Medici, 64; letters to, from Cosimo de’ Medici, 65, 66; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici on his father’s death, 84
---- Sixtus IV., 155, 156, 167; implicated in the Pazzi conspiracy, 186, 187, 188; letter to, from Louis XI. on the Pazzi conspiracy, 193; 196, 197, 199; letter from, to the Duke of Urbino, 205; 208, 221, 222, 234, 245, 248, 253; death of, 258
Pucci, Antonio, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 221
---- Puccio, prudence and sagacity of, 7; 8
Pulci, Bernardo, 100_n_, 118
---- Luca, 100_n_, 125
---- Luigi, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, about going to Rome, 100; letter from, to the same, 107; letters from, to the same from Pisa, 118, 119; 150; letter from, to the same from Naples, 159; letter from, to the same from Rome, 162
R
Riario, Girolamo, nephew of Sixtus IV., 175; joins in the Pazzi conspiracy, 187, 188; accused by Louis XI. of aiding in the murder of Giuliano de’ Medici, 193; 242, 243; plans attack on the Duke of Ferrara, 243; 254
---- Piero, 186, 187
_Ricordi_, or Diary of Filigno de’ Medici, 2
---- of Cosimo de’ Medici, 19
---- of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 128, 141, 150
Roberti, Niccolò, letter to the Duke Borso d’Este, 176
Robbia, Luca della, 84
Rovere, Giuliano della, _see_ Vincula, S. Piero in
Rucellai, Bernardo, marries Nannina de’ Medici, 106; 140, 265
---- Giovanni, 107
---- Nannina, letter to her mother Lucrezia de’ Medici, 222
S
Sacchetti, Francesco, 5; on the sale of Christian slaves, 29
Salviati, Francesco, Archbishop of Pisa, joins in the Pazzi conspiracy, 187, 188, 189; tries to seize the Palace of the Signoria, 190; is hung, 191
Sansoni, Raffaello, Cardinal of S. Giorgio, involved in the Pazzi conspiracy, 189, 190, 196
Savonarola, Fra Girolamo, 338, 339; at the deathbed of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 340
Scala, Bartolommeo, letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici at Naples, 231, 233, 234; letter from, to the same at Morba, 255; poem by, 256
Sforza, Count Francesco, 32, 33; letters to Cosimo de’ Medici, 36, 38, 39, 44; becomes Duke of Milan, 56; 58, 60; document from, conferring privileges on the Medici, 71; 87; death of, 99; letters from Piero de’ Medici to his son Lorenzo on the death of, 102, 103
---- Galeazzo Maria, entry of, into Florence, 60; speech of, to the Signoria of Florence, 60; describes a dinner at Careggi, 61; 94; succeeds his father as Duke of Milan, 99; 104, 153, 170; murder of, 187
---- Lodovico (Il Moro), 227, 228, 274, 275, 276, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 286, 287_n_, 314, 315
---- Gian Galeazzo, Duke of Milan, marriage of, 299
Sgnippi, Bartolommeo, letter from, to Montecatino, Ferrarese ambassador to Florence, on an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de’ Medici, 241
Silvestro, Fra, 339, 340
Sixtus IV., Pope, 149, 186; grievances of, against Florence, 187;
## participation of, in the Pazzi conspiracy, 188; letter to, from Louis
XI. about the Pazzi conspiracy, 193; 196, 197, 203; letter from, to the Duke of Urbino, 205; 208, 245, 246, 249, 253; death of, 258
Slaves in Florence in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 29
Soderini, Tommaso, influence of, 144; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on engaging condottieri for the war against the Pope and Naples, 194
Spain, King of, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 215
Strozzi, Filippo, quoted, on the Pazzi conspiracy, 190
Symonds, John Addington, quoted, 8, 9, 92, 144, 177
T
Tolfa, or Tofa, La, alum mines of, 98
Tornabuoni, Francesco, 17, 49
---- Francesco, letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici about Clarice Orsini, 122, 123
---- Giovanni, 49, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 116, 120, 122, 123, 124, 134, 163, 168, 170, 186, 210, 211, 225, 261, 263, 264, 303
Tournament of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 123, 124, 125
---- of Giuliano de’ Medici, 176
U
Urbino, Count and Duke of, Federigo, 104, 136_n_, 141, 163, 164; letter to, from Sixtus IV. abusing Lorenzo de’ Medici, 205; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici asking for reinforcements, 246
V
Valois, Marguerite de, 112
Valori, Niccolò, 49; quoted, 144
Vasari, Giorgio, quoted, 84, 191
Verrocchio, Andrea, 191; designs waxen images of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 192
Vespasiano da Bisticci, quoted, 8, 9
Vespucci, Guidantonio, letter from, from Paris to the Ten of the Balìa, 226; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici from Rome on the election of Innocent VIII., 258
Vettori, Pietro, Florentine ambassador at Naples, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 314
Vincula, S. Piero in, Cardinal, _see_ Rovere
Visconti, Filippo Maria, Duke of Milan, 11, 13, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 56
---- Giovanni, Archbishop and Lord of Milan, 4
W
Waxen images of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 192
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Transcriber’s Notes
Unusual spellings in the Italian transcriptions of facsimile letters were retained as originally published.
The original publisher swapped the letter transcriptions facing pages 50 and 206; these have been restored to the correct places.
In addition to the below changes, several minor punctuation and typographical errors have been fixed.
Page xvi and 289: changed ‘Babbiena’ to ‘Bibbiena’.
Page 19: changed ‘Acciaioli’ to ‘Acciaiuoli’.
Page 32: in the original publication, the last four letters of ‘Corro’ are surmounted by a large tilde.
Page 40: changed ‘Vicesomes’ to ‘Vicecomes’.
Page 107: changed ‘Aloyius’ to ‘Aloysius’.
Page 139: changed ‘Capezano’ to ‘Capezzano’.
Page 181: changed ‘Ridofo’ to ‘Ridolfo’.
Page 186: changed ‘1748’ to ‘1478’.
Page 202: changed ‘Saterno’ to ‘Salerno’.
Page 236: changed ‘Giocacchino’ to ‘Giovacchino’.
Page 298: paragraph beginning with ‘Lorenzo’s grief’ separated from above letter.
Page 323: changed ‘Aldobrandini’ to ‘Aldovrandini’.
Page 346: changed ‘John XXII.’ to ‘John XXIII.’
Footnote 161: changed ‘Argiropulos’ to ‘Argyropoulos’.