_Salve_, &c. I send thee some poems so that thou mayst remember me. I have a thousand phantasies in my head which thou shalt hear some day and which will please thee. The poem is nearly finished; then we must do a more important work, and perhaps three nymphs, who are here, will come to be judged by a better man than Paris, and we will bestow the prize to our liking. Whoever is ill pleased shall pay the expenses of a ball; but I mean to prepare a triumph which shall be praised by thee and that for me is always sufficient. I have nought to say save that I am thine as ever. _Scriptum est._ Commend me to the Magnificent Piero and to Madonna Lucrezia, and to all at home. _Salutam Vale, et me dilige._--From Pisa, January 12, 1466 (1467). _Tuus servitor_, Aloysius Pulcher. This day Tanai[108] and his wife with about a hundred horse entered Pisa in great triumph, and _Palle_ resounded everywhere; we shall amuse ourselves and talk much of thee.[109] Several brides had been proposed for Lorenzo, and at last Piero decided for a daughter of the proud house of Orsini. The suggestion was first made by his brother-in-law Giovanni Tornabuoni, head of the Medici bank at Rome, and treasurer to Sixtus IV. But Lucrezia insisted on seeing the girl with her own eyes before coming to a final decision, and in March 1467 set out for Rome, from whence she wrote to her husband: Lucrezia de’ Medici _to her husband_ Piero On the way I wrote to thee often and told thee about the roads. I arrived on Thursday, and was received with much joy by Giovanni, as thou canst imagine. I have had thy letter of the 21st which consoled me greatly, hearing that the pains had ceased. But every day seems to me a year until I return for thy and my consolation.