[188] Registri secreti del Senato, cited by Cigogna.—Cenni, Critico–storici, p. 28. [189] Cenni, Storici, p. 44. [190] Lib. 4, ch. 4. [191] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 4. [192] Note 3. [193] Cigogna. Cenni, Storico–critici, p. 30. [194] See Cigogna. Cenni, Storico–critici, p. 31. [195] Note 4. [196] Cigogna. Cenni, Storico–critici, p. 32. [197] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 4. [198] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5. [199] Adriani. Lib. 19.—Galluzzi. Lib. 3. [200] Republiques. V. 16, p. 204. [201] Galluzzi. Lib. 4.—Sismondi. Ch. 123. [202] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5. [203] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5. [204] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 6. [205] Lib. 4, ch. 6. [206] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5. [207] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 6. [208] Letter from Giovanni Vettorio Soderini to Signore Silvio Piccolomini; printed in the Notes to Guerrazzi's "Isabella Orsini," p. 179. [209] "Familiarità con l'olio di vetriolo." [210] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 6. [211] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 7. [212] Printed by Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 7. [213] Printed by Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 7. [214] Printed by Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 8. [215] See, in confirmation of his view, Appendix, art. II. [216] Note 5. [217] The sentence is thus incomplete in the original. [218] "Scontorcimenti." [219] Note 6. [220] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 8. [221] "Non fece testamento prima, nè poi." [222] "Rispettosamente;" which means literally "respectfully," and not "doubtfully." But "respectful" does not describe the manner of a sovereign to a captain of his guards. The author's meaning evidently is "with a manner the reverse of security and boldness." [223] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 8. [224] Hist. Rep. Ital., ch. 123. [225] Letter of Soderini.—Guerrazzi's Isabella Orsini. [226] Giusti. The stinging satires of this Tuscan poet, who died a few years since in the prime of life, should be read by those who wish to obtain a just notion of the lights and shades of modern Italian life. [227] Guide Book to Central Italy. [228] Storia Pittorica, vol. v. p. 97, edit. 4to. [229] Lanzi should have written "recorded by herself;" for Malvasia, the historian of Bolognese art, merely prints a catalogue, left by the artist in her own handwriting. [230] The list, however, is not complete, as there are pictures by her extant, which are not enumerated in it. [231] This would seem to refer either to the medical brother or to the pupils in the house. [232] She alludes in all probability to the murder of her husband; if so, the date of this letter would enable us to fix, with some approach to accuracy, the time of that event, which the Florentine contemporary writers have not mentioned, and which the subsequent historians have not been able to fix. [233] This appears to allude to some scheme of marriage, which Bianca would seem to have in some degree encouraged.