Machiavelli, Niccolò, on Benedetto Alberti, 11; death of Niccolò da Uzzano a calamity for Florence, 18; meeting of Eugenius IV. and Rinaldo degl’Albizzi, 19, 20, 59; rivalry of the Cerchi and the Donati, 95, 96; Corso Donati described by, 96, 97, 98; on Luca Pitti, 185, 186; on Cosimo de’ Medici, 241, 243, 249; on the murder of Giuliano de’ Medici, 251, 252; on Niccolò and Tommaso Soderini, 305, 306; on Piero Soderini, 307, 321, 365, 366. Manelli, The, different names of, 137; refuse to allow the corridor connecting the Palazzo Pitti and the Palazzo Vecchio to pass through their house, 142; Amaretto, 138; Francesco, Boccaccio’s friend, makes a copy of the _Decameron_, 138–139; Raimondo takes Spinola prisoner, 141. Mann, Sir Horace, on Lady Orford’s Cicisbeo, 154; on the Count of Albany, on Marshal Botta, 199–200. Martelli, Camilla, wife of Cosimo I., her death, 144; Lodovico, a poet, 143; Lodovico, duel of with G. Bandini, 143, 144; Ruberto, patron and friend of Donatello, 143. Medici, Alessandro de’, 25, 36, 60, 72, 74, 81, 84, 109, 111, 112, 129, 131; attempted murder of, 172, 237, 259, 260; created Duke, 261, 262; murder of, 263, 265, 266, 293, 335, 336, 351, 357, 382, 383, 384; Bernardetto de’, 351; Carlo de’, Cardinal, 61; Clarice de’, 259; turns Ippolito and Alessandro out of Palazzo Medici, 260, 333; Cosimo de’ (the elder), 18, 19, 26, 71, 74, 113, 144, 146, 156, 185, 186, 220, 234, 237; builds the Medici palace, 241, 242; character of, 241; banishment and return of, 245; death of, 247; Gibbon on, 246; patron of artists and men of letters, 246; imprisoned in the Alberghettino, 366, 369; Cosimo I., Grand Duke, 23, 30, 36, 60, 69, 84, 102, 114, 116, 122, 124, 128, 131, 135, 141, 142, 156, 162, 187, 232, 237; succeeds to the Duke Alessandro, 266; proclamation and marriage of, 267, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 349, 350, 378, 384, 388; Cosimo II., Grand Duke, lengthens the Palazzo Pitti, 195, 196; marriage of, 389, 390; Cosimo III., Grand Duke, 48, 61; tour through Europe as Prince, 85, 86, 99; rupture between him and his wife, 197–199, 390; Ferdinando I., Grand Duke, 121, 181; marriage festivities of, 191–193, 194, 237, 388, 389; Ferdinando II., Grand Duke, 48, 85, 113, 195; picture gallery begun by in the Palazzo Pitti, 196, 345, 397; Francesco I., Grand Duke, 23, 42, 60, 61, 114, 189, 191, 386; Giovanni de’, description of by Machiavelli, 238–241; Giovanni de’ (delle Bande Nere), 160, 294; Giovanni de’ (Leo X.), 163; is made a Cardinal, 252, 256; is elected Pope, 257; death of, 258, 332; Giovan Carlo de’, Cardinal, 84, 114; Giovan Gastone, Grand Duke, 199, 291; Giuliano de’, 35; murder of, 171, 251, 293, 306, 379, 380; Giuliano de’ (Duke of Nemours), 255, 256;