[102] Luigi Pulci was born in Florence on August 15, 1432, of Jacopo Pulci and Brigida de’ Bardi. His brothers Luca and Bernardo were also poets. and Bernardo’s wife Antonia was a poetess of some repute. Luca went into trade but failed, and died in gaol in 1470, leaving his widow and children dependent on his brothers. Luigi, an intimate friend of the Medici family, wrote _La Giostra_ (sometimes attributed to his brother Luca) to celebrate the tournament held by Lorenzo de’ Medici in honour of the marriage of Braccio Martelli, but really of Lucrezia Donati just before his marriage with Clarice Orsini. The poem _Driades_ was first published under the pseudonym of Lucio Pulcro in Florence in 1479, but the later editions bear his name. His greatest work, less read than it deserves, _Morgante Maggiore_, was, as Mr. Armstrong says, a growth rather than a composition. Stanzas were recited at table, and Lucrezia de’ Medici urged him to collect them into an epic poem. Besides being a poet, Luigi Pulci was an acute and clever politician, often employed by Lorenzo in missions to foreign courts. He died in 1484, probably at Padua whilst on the road to Venice. [103] _Lettere di Luigi Pulci a Lorenzo il Magnifico_, Nelle Nozze della Volpe Zambrini, p. 6. Salvatore Bonghi, Lucca, 1868. [104] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 47. [105] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 49. [106] Ibid., ii. 36. [107] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 36. [108] Probably Tanai, son of Vieri de’ Medici. [109] _Lettere di Luigi Pulci_, op. cit., p. 26. The _Palle_ are the balls in the Medici arms, and the people saluted the Medici by shouting “_Palle, Palle_.” [110] Her own daughters. [111] _Tre Letter di Lucrezia Tornabuoni a Piero de’ Medici_, Ricordo di Nozze, Cesare Guasti. Firenze, 1859. [112] Gentile Becchi, tutor to Lorenzo and Giuliano, afterwards Bishop of Arezzo. [113] _Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Donna di Piero de’ Medici_, Studio da G. Levantini-Pieroni. Firenze, 1888. [114] _Arch. Med. Miscellanea_, p. 6. [115] Illegible. [116] _Lucrezia Tornabuoni_, &c., _op. cit._ [117] Ibid., Filza lxxx. [118] Daughter of Agnolo Acciaiuoli, married to Pier Francesco de’ Medici. [119] _Archivio_, &c., Filza xxi. No. 55. [120] _Lucrezia Tornabuoni_, &c., _op. cit._ [121] Luigi Pulci’s brother. [122] In the Mugello where Luigi Pulci owned a small property. [123] _Lettere di Luigi Pulci_, op. cit. 31. [124] Ibid. [125] _Tre Lettere di Lucrezia_, &c., _op. cit._ [126] _Tre Lettere di Lucrezia Tornabuoni_, op. cit. [127] _La Fidanzata di Lorenzo de’ Medici_, per nozze Bondi-Levi. Isidoro Del Lungo, 8th July 1897. [128] _La Giostra di Lorenzo de’ Medici_, erroneously attributed by many writers to his brother Luca. [129] _Tre Lettere di Lucrezia_, &c., _op. cit._ Rinaldo Orsini was afterwards Archbishop of Florence. [130] Ibid. [131] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., vol. ii. p. 39. [132] A Tuscan white wine still much prized.