Ficino, Marsilio, selected to preside over the Platonic Academy, 57; letter to, from Cosimo de’ Medici, 73; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici describing his grandfather Cosimo, 76; 143 Filelfo, Francesco, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 166 Florence, Signoria of, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici announcing his departure for Naples, 229 Fortebraccio, Niccolò, letter from, to Cosimo de’ Medici, 34; 36, 37, 39, 40 France, King of, _see_ Louis XI. Franco, Matteo, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 173; letters from, to Piero Dovizi describing Clarice’s journey from Morba, 267; from the baths of Stigliano, 289; from Rome, 327 Frederick II., Emperor, entry of into Florence, 56; 248, 249, 250, 251, 253 G Gibbon, Edward, quoted, 7 I Innocent VIII., Pope, election of, 258; 261, 262, 265, 283, 284; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 285; 286, 287, 294; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the death of his wife, 296; 298, 303; letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the promotion of his son Giovanni to the Cardinalate, 304; letter to, from the same on the condition of F. Cibò, 306; 310, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 328, 335, 336 J John XXIII., Pope, 7 K Krain, Archbishop of, 245; proclaims a Council at Basel, 246; 247, 249, 252 L Landucci, Luca, quoted, 165_n_ Lanfredini, Giovanni, Florentine ambassador at Venice, then at Rome, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the war with the Pope and Venice, 196; letters to, from the same about Pico della Mirandola, 311, 318, 319 Lapini, quoted, on slave girls, 30_n_ Leoni, Doctor Piero, 283, 323, 324; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici on various waters, 326; 329, 336; suicide of, 342 Louis XI., King of France, 84; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici creating him a privy councillor, 85; document from, granting Piero de’ Medici the privilege of quartering the Lily of France on his arms, 86; 152, 155, 156, 186; letter from, to the Florentine Republic on the Pazzi conspiracy, 192; letter from, to Sixtus IV., on the same, 193; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 198; 206, 226, 227; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 254; 285 Lucca, war against, 13, 15, 16, 18; end of war against, 19; war renewed against, 33 M Machiavelli, Girolamo, 58 ---- Niccolò, quoted, 7, 28, 33, 82, 105, 145, 186, 208 Malegonnelle, Piero, letters from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici about Morba, 184 Manfredi, Manfredo di, Ferrarese ambassador to Florence; letters from, to Duke Ercole d’Este, 305, 330 Medici, ancestors of the, 1 ---- Ardingo de’, 2 ---- Averardo de’, fabulous, 1 ---- ---- Gonfalonier of Justice in 1314, 2 ---- ---- (cousin of Cosimo), letters to, from Cosimo, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26 ---- Bank of the, manager of the, to Duke Ercole d’Este, 309 ---- Bernardo de’, 17, 23 ---- Bianca de’, 7, 109; letter from, to her mother Lucrezia, 223; 265, 330 ---- Bonagiunta de’, 2