[111] Signor Iodico Del Badia, in a note to his edition of Luca Landucci’s _Diary_, writes: “Out of devotion it was the custom for illustrious Florentines and also strangers of rank, such as popes, cardinals, princes, condottieri, etc., to put their own portrait made in wax of the size of life in this church. These were placed on shelves constructed on purpose. But in 1448 these were full, so the waxen images were hung by ropes from the ceiling. If by chance one of them fell down it was looked upon as an evil augury for the person or for his family. When political passions ran high the dominant party removed the portraits of their antagonists.” Varchi also mentions that in 1527 certain youths “entered one morning very early into the church of the Annunziata, and cast down the waxen images of Pope Leo and Pope Clement; and after inflicting many wounds upon them, they carried them off; which deed was severely, and to my thinking justly, blamed by good and prudent men.” [112] First published in the _Miscellanea Fiorentina_. No. 9. September, 1886. [113] He built the Loggia of the Mercato Nuovo. [114] _Raccolta di Lettere sulla Pittura, Scultura ed Architettura._ Scritte da’ piu celebri personaggi dei secoli XV. XVI. e XVII. Publicata da M. Gio. Bottari. Vol. 3. Milano. Giovanni Silvestri. MDCCXXII. [115] _Miscellanea Fiorentina di Erudizione e Storia._ By Signor Iodico Del Badia. No. 1. p. 4. [116] Dieu-Donné. INDEX _Acciaiuoli_, Acciaiuolo, sent to manage bank at Naples, a favourite of King Robert, 1; Dardano, Gonfalonier of Justice, 1; Dardano, builds the church of S. Niccolò in Florence, 3; Donato, ambassador to France, 5; Lionardo, Duke of Athens, strangled by Mahomet II., 5; Neri, conquers Thebes and Bœotia and drives the Spaniards out of Greece, 5; Niccola, appointed guardian of the sons of the Princess of Taranto, 2; Grand Seneschal of the Kingdom of Naples, 2; builds the Certosa near Florence, the villa of Monte Guffone and the Acciaiuoli Palace, 3; Matteo Palmieri’s description of, 3–4; Bocchi’s description of the palace, 4–5; Riccomanni, founder of the Acciaiuoli bank, 1; Ruberto, romantic story of, 6–9. Albany, Count of (the Pretender), Sir Horace Mann on the, 297–299. Albany, Countess of, intrigue with Count Alfieri, 298. Albany, Duchess of, 299. _Alberti_, Alberto, Prior in 1294, 10; Antonio, tortured and excluded from all offices, 12; Benedetto, Machiavelli’s description of, 11; Leon Battista, description of the, by, 12–13; birth and education of, 13; inventions by, 14; _Trattato della Famiglia_ by, 14; strenuous advocate for writing in Italian, 15; death of, 15; J. A. Symonds’ description of, 15–16; house of the Rucellai attributed to, 113; architect of the Palazzo Rucellai, 280; of the façade of Sta. Maria Novella, 282.