[189] _Un Cortigiano di Lorenzo il Magnifico_, G. Volpi, Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, xvii. fasc. 50-51. [190] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxx. No. 394. [191] _Sylvia hortensis_ or garden warbler. [192] A famous cook. [193] A sweet dish. [194] _Michelangelo Buonarroti, Quellen und Forschungen zu seiner Geschichte und Kunst_, Karl Frey, i. 77. Berlin, 1907. Bertoldo di Giovanni was born between 1410-1420, and two days after his death Bartolommeo Dati wrote: “Bertoldo, an admirable sculptor and medallist, who made many fine works and was always with the Magnificent Lorenzo, has died after two days’ illness at Poggio a Caiano (December 28, 1491). He is a great loss and much regretted by Lorenzo, for in all Tuscany and perhaps in all Italy there is none other of such talent and worth.” [195] _Renaissance in Italy_, J. A. Symonds, iv. 354. Smith, Elder & Co., 1898. [196] An instrument used in falconry, made of leather and feathers in the shape of a wing. [197] Giovanni (afterwards Pope Leo X.) was born on the 11th December. [198] _Prose Volgari inedite_, &c., di Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano, Isidoro Del Lungo. Barbera, Firenze, 1867. [199] Ibid., _op. cit._ [200] _Del Bagno a Morba_, Ricordi Storici e Letterari, Luigi Righetti. Roma. [201] The Duchess of Ferrara, wife of Ercole, Duke of Ferrara, and daughter of Ferrante I., King of Naples. She passed through Pisa on her way to Naples to attend her father’s marriage with Giovanna d’Aragona. [202] The meaning of this word is obscure. Some suggest that it is a kind of fish, others that it is the name of a wine. I think Lucrezia jokingly asked her son to send her some cool sea-wind. The peasants still call the west wind which blows from the sea _marino_. [203] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxxiv. No. 133. [204] _Affetti di Famiglia nel Quattrocento_, Gugliemo Volpi, Vita Nuova, No. 503. [205] _Prose Volgari_, &c., _op. cit._ [206] Son of her daughter Nannina, wife of Bernardo Rucellai. [207] _Del Bagno a Morba_, op. cit. [208] Ibid. [209] Lucrezia de’ Medici had just bought Bagno a Morba from the Commune of Florence. [210] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza lxxxv. No. 203. [211] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxxiv. No. 312. [212] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. p. 168. [213] _Le Vite de’ piu eccelenti Pittori_, &c., Giorgio Vasari, iii. 374. Sansoni, Firenze, 1878. [214] Philippe de Comines, who writes: “I remained about a year in Florence and her territory as the guest of the Florentines, who treated me well, better even on the last day of my visit than on the first.”--_Memoires de Messire Philippe de Comines, Seigneur d’Argenton_, i. 395. Brusselle, 1723. [215] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 119. [216] _Congiura de’ Pazzi_, narrata in Latino da A. Poliziano volgarizzate con sue note e illustrazioni da Anicio Bonucci, p. 119. Le Monnier, Firenze, 1856. [217] Lorenzo’s uncle by marriage, sent on a special mission to Milan and to Venice.