[133] Donatello’s David. It was placed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio after the expulsion of Piero de’ Medici in 1494 and is now in the Bargello. [134] _Tela di Renza_, or _Rensa_, so-called because it came from Rheims in France. [135] The illegitimate son of Cosimo, canon of the cathedral of Florence. [136] Gentile Becchi of Urbino, tutor to Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici, afterwards Bishop of Arezzo. [137] _Delle Nozze di Lorenzo de’ Medici con Clarice Orsini nel 1469. Informazione di Piero Parenti Fiorentino_, per le Nozze di Florestano ed Elisa dei Conti di Larderel. In Firenze, 1870. [138] _Donne Medicee avanti il Principato_, Berta Felice, Rassegna Nazionale. [139] A. Fabronio, _Laurentii Medicis Magnifici Vita_, Annotationes et Monumenta, p. 45. Pisis, 1784. In _Memoirs of Dukes of Urbino_, by J. Dennistoun, vol. i. p. 186, is the following passage: “Federigo’s [of Urbino] condotta in the papal service had just expired, leaving him free to consult the dictates of policy, his views as to which were stated in an appeal to Pietro de’ Medici on behalf of Rimini, in words which may almost be deemed prophetic. ‘I am constrained to believe that the Pontiff and the Venetian Signory intend to occupy Rimini and all Romagna, and eventually Bologna too. Rimini once lost, the rest will readily follow, and your lordship and the league may easily suppose where Bologna and Imola would then be. Those who will not resist such projects at first may have afterwards to pay a hundredfold, and God grant that it be to good purpose.’” Edited by Edward Hutton. John Lane, London, 1909. It is a curious coincidence that Bentivoglio and Federigo of Urbino should use almost identical words, unless Dennistoun has made a mistake about the writer. [140] _Non fare tante melarancie_ (Not make so many oranges): an old proverb. [141] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Avi, No. i. 474. [142] The inn still exists. [143] S. George is the patron saint of Pietrasanta, S. Zita a favourite saint in Lucca. [144] Sarzana and Sarzanella had been bought the year before by Piero de’ Medici from Lodovico di Campo Fregoso. They were valuable to Florence as Sarzana commanded the direct road from Milan to Florence which near there lay between the mountains and the sea. An invasion from the north was thus rendered difficult, while an attack on Lucca could be carried out without fear of her allies being able to come swiftly to her help. Sarzanella, the fine fortress built by the great Lucchese Ghibelline, Castruccio Castrocane, in its turn commanded Sarzana. [145] Bernardo Rucellai, husband of Lorenzo’s sister Nannina. [146] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 54. [147] Ibid., ii. 56. [148] See p. 153, Lorenzo’s _Ricordi_. [149] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza. vii. No. 411. LORENZO DI PIERO DE’ MEDICI (1450-1492)