[341] Alfonso, son of the King of Naples.
[342] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[343] Ibid.
[344] _Lettere di Lorenzo il Magnifico al Sommo Pontefice Innocenzo
VIII._, Canonico D. Moreni. Firenze, 1830.
[345] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[346] Ibid.
[347] Count Girolamo Riario, nephew of the late Pope Sixtus, cruel and
despotic, had been murdered by his subjects, and his wife Caterina, an
illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Sforza, taken prisoner with her three
sons. The castle of Ravaldino which commanded the town still held out,
and the insurgents allowed her to go to the commandant on the pretence
that she would induce him to surrender, leaving her children as
hostages in their hands. Once inside the castle she defied the people,
and when they threatened to kill her children replied, according to
Guicciardini, “Are you not fools, cannot you see that I can have
others?” Milanese troops were sent by Lodovico Sforza and the little
boys were saved.
[348] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[349] _Prose Volgari inedite_, &c., _op. cit._ p. 74.
[350] _Arch. Stor. Ital._, Serie terza, ix. 48, Parte I.
[351] _Vita e Fatti d’Innocenzo VIII._, Scritta per Messer Francesco
Serdonati, fiorentino, &c. Milano, Ferrario, 1829, 59 _et seq._
[352] Ten years before Girolamo Riario had taken Piancaldoli from
Florence during the war between Sixtus and Lorenzo. Lodovico Sforza was
furious at this success of the Florentine arms, but could do nothing.
[353] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[354] The Manfredi were lords of Faenza, which was under the protection
of Florence. Galeotto Manfredi had been murdered by his jealous
wife, Francesca Bentivoglio, and the citizens, afraid to lose their
freedom, had taken her, and her father who had come from Bologna to her
assistance, prisoners, and slain the Milanese general sent by Sforza.
Lorenzo took the part of the murdered man’s young son Astorre, and
Giovanni Bentivoglio was kept a prisoner for some weeks at Modigliana,
while his daughter Francesca was sent to Bologna to her mother.
[355] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op cit._
[356] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[357] Ibid.
[358] Clarice was consumptive.
[359] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[360] _Lettere di Lorenzo de’ Medici a Innocenzo VIII._, op. cit. 18.
[361] _Lettere_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[362] Ibid.
[363] _Lettere_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[364] Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan, married his cousin, Isabella
of Naples, daughter of Alfonso, Duke of Calabria. Lorenzo de’ Medici
was ill, so Piero, his son, met the Duchess at Leghorn, and then went
to Milan to attend the marriage festivities.
[365] Florentine ambassador to Milan.
[366] Piero de’ Medici’s device, invented by Poliziano, was a
_broncone_ or bough (in Nestor’s drawing it looks more like a hurdle)
in flames, with the motto, _In Viridi Teneras Flamma Medúlas Exudit_,
signifying that his love was so strenuous and incomparable that it
would even set fire to green wood. _Histoire des Hommes Illustres de la
Maison de Medici._ Jean Nestor, 1564.
[367] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 296.
[368] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 394.
[369] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., ii. 300.
[370] _Lettere di Lorenzo a Innocenzo VIII._, op. cit. 14.
[371] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[372] Ibid.
[373] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. de Modena, _op. cit._
[374] Ibid.
[375] Francesco Cibò, the Pope’s son, married to Maddalena de’ Medici,
Lorenzo’s daughter.
[376] _Lettere di Lorenzo a Innocenzo VIII._, op. cit.
[377] _Lettere e Notizie_, Arch. Pal. di Modena, p. 315.
[378] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 293.
[379] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xxiv. No. 502.
[380] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 292.
[381] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xliii. No. 157. (The date is
uncertain, as there is a blot of ink on the figure 8. A rough copy in
Lorenzo’s handwriting.)
[382] _Laurentii Medicis Vita, &c._, _op. cit._ ii. 344.
[383] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xviii. No. 19.
[384] Ibid., xliii. No. 139.
[385] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xli. No. 531.
[386] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 293. (By some mistake
Fabroni gives the date as August 1492. Lorenzo died on April 8 of
that year.) During a visit to Rome in 1486 Pico della Mirandola had
promulgated nine hundred theses on theology, philosophy, magic, and
the Cabbalah, which he offered to maintain in public disputation.
Heresies contained in them were pointed out by his enemies and Innocent
VIII. issued a Brief against those considered as dangerous. Pico fled
to France and published an apology protesting his orthodoxy, but it
was only by Lorenzo’s influence that the Pope was induced to suspend
proceedings. Pico then returned to Florence and Lorenzo, as this and
the two former letters show, pressed the Pope hard to grant his friend
a full pardon.
[387] _Laurentii Medicis Vita, &c._, ii. 365 _et seq._
[388] _Arch. Med. ante Prin._, Filza xliii. No. 142 (draft of letter in
Lorenzo’s handwriting without date).
[389] A Greek scribe employed by Lorenzo in copying.
[390] _Prose Volgari inedite_, &c., _op. cit._ 78.
[391] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, &c., _op. cit._ ii. 90.
[392] _Acqua arzente_ in modern Italian is the name given to water with
nitrous acid in it and is used to clean silver. It is poisonous. Piero
Leoni evidently suspected something wrong (perhaps poisonous) in a
certain water which had been recommended to Lorenzo. He advises him to
go back to his old waters until he analyses the new water.
[393] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 91.
[394] _Un Cortigiano di Lorenzo il Magnifico_, Gugliemo Volpi. Estratto
del Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana, 1891, xvii. 229.
[395] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[396] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[397] Ibid.
[398] Ibid.
[399] _Lettere e Notizie_, &c., Arch. Pal. di Modena, _op. cit._
[400] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. ii. 308 _et seq._
[401] Paper torn.
[402] _Life of Leo X._, W. Roscoe, Appendix i. 408. H. G. Bohn, London,
1853.
[403] _Laurentii Medicis Vita_, op. cit. i. 199 _et seq._
[404] _Epistola di Fra Placido Cinozzi_ in _Scelta di Prediche e
Scritti di Fra Girolamo Savonarola, con nuovi documenti intorno
alla sua vita_, P. Villari e E. Casanuova. G. C. Sansoni, Firenze,
1898, p. 16. The _Biographia Latina_ of Savonarola follows Cinozzi’s
account, citing Fra Silvestro and Fra Domenico, an ardent adherent of
Savonarola, as authorities. The same story, with additions, is given
by the biographers of Savonarola, Pico della Mirandola (a nephew of
Lorenzo’s friend) and Burlamacchi. “There is,” says Creighton, “no
evidence that Pico, the earliest of them, had written his book before
1520; whether Burlamacchi wrote independently or merely re-edited Pico
is a question open to discussion.”
[405] Dei gives wrong dates. Lorenzo was born on January 1, 1449 (1450).
[406] _Archivio Storico Italiano_, Serie v. Tomo iv., Dispensa 5 e 6
del 1889, p. 258.
INDEX
A
Acciaiuoli, Agnolo, 19, 57; reason of his hatred of the Medici, 83,
84; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici, 105; secretly recalled by Piero
de’ Medici, 142; 153
Alamanni, Piero, Florentine ambassador at Rome; letter to, from
Lorenzo de’ Medici on Giovanni’s nomination to the Cardinalate, 303
Alberti, Alberto de’, letter from, to Giovanni de’ Medici on the state
of Rome, 47
Albino, Giovanni, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 240
Albizzi, Rinaldo degl’, 13, 19, 20, 26, 28
Aldrovandini, Guidone, Ferrarese ambassador to Florence, letter from,
to the Duke Ercole d’Este, 274; letter to, from the Duke, 276; letter
from, to the Duke about Lorenzo de’ Medici and the state of Florence,
277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 294, 295, 297, 298
Alum, monopoly of, given to the Medici, 98; 104, 306
Ammanati, Jacopo, Cardinal of Pavia, 163; letters from, to Lorenzo de’
Medici on the Cardinalate for Giuliano, 167, 168
Ammirato, Scipione, quoted, 7
Angoulême, Marguerite d’, Queen of Navarre, 114
Antonino, Archbishop, on slavery, 29
Aragona, Don Federigo d’, meets Lorenzo de’ Medici at Pisa, 87; letter
to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici on the old Tuscan poets, 88; 94_n_, 146
---- Cardinal d’, 259, 260, 263
Artimino, Papinio di, letters to Lucrezia de’ Medici on the Turkish
army in Apulia, 237, 238
Avogarius, Doctor Petrus Bonus, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 301
B
Baccio, Ugolino, 245; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici about the
Archbishop of Krain, 247, 249, 252; 274; letter to, from Lorenzo de’
Medici, 278; 314, 316
Baldovinetti, quoted, on slaves, 30
Basel, Œcumenical Council of, transferred to Ferrara and Florence, 41,
42; Archbishop of Krain at, 247, 249, 252
Becchi, Gentile, of Urbino (Bishop of Arezzo), 111, 133; letter from,
to Clarice de’ Medici describing Lorenzo’s journey to Milan, 138; 143,
155, 170, 214
Bentivoglio, Giovanni di, letter from, to Piero de’ Medici about the
League against Venice and the Pope, 135; letter to, from Lorenzo de’
Medici, 202
C
Cafaggiuolo, Villa of, 4, 19, 60, 74; Clarice de’ Medici and her
children at, 213, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222
Caiano, Poggio a, Villa of, flood at, described in _Ambra_, 147; 155
Calabria, Alfonso, Duke of, 59, 200, 206, 207, 231, 232, 240, 254,
274, 284
---- Ippolita Maria d’Aragona, Duchess of, 87, 93_n_; letter from, to
Lorenzo de’ Medici, 236
Cambi, Giovanni, quoted, 56, 61
Capponi, Marquess Gino, quoted, 150
Careggi, Villa of, 27; Count of Pavia at, 61; last months of Cosimo
de’ Medici at, 73, 74, 75; death of Cosimo de’ Medici at, 78; 81, 84,
137; death of Piero de’ Medici at, 142; 152, 181, 217, 223, 291, 336;
death of Lorenzo de’ Medici at, 339, 340, 341
Catasto, 5; description of the, 164_n_
Cavalcanti, Giovanni, quoted, 6
Ceccho, Messer, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 201; 203, 204,
207, 208
Cinozzi, Fra Pacifico, 339; account of the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici
by, 340
Comines, Philippe de, 149_n_, 193, 202, 226; letter to, from Lorenzo
de’ Medici, 312
Creighton, Dr., quoted, 150
Cristofano d’Antonio, Fra, letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici about
her grandchildren, 172
D
Dei, Bartolommeo, letter from, to his uncle on the death of Lorenzo
de’ Medici, 341
Dennistoun, J., quoted, 136_n_
Dovizi da Bibbiena, Piero, letters to, from Matteo Franco, 289, 327
E
Este, Duke Borso d’, 176
---- Eleonora d’, Duchess of Ferrara, letter to, from Lorenzo de’
Medici on the death of his mother, 244
---- Ercole d’, Duke of Ferrara, 135, 241; letter to, from Lorenzo
de’ Medici on his mother’s death, 244; 254; letter to, from Lorenzo
de’ Medici, 273; letter to, from his ambassador Aldrovandini, 274;
letter from, to Aldrovandini, 276; letters to, from Aldrovandini, 277,
280, 282, 283, 285, 294, 297, 298; letters to, from his ambassador
Manfredi, 305, 309, 330
Eugenius IV., Pope, 26_n_; arrival of at Florence for Œcumenical
Council, 41; Lorenzo de’ Medici (brother to Cosimo) sent to Ferrara
to, 42
F
Ferrante, or Ferdinando, King of Naples, 53, 125, 128, 129, 135, 158,
159, 160, 163, 170, 176, 195, 196, 197, 199, 202, 227, 228, 229_n_,
230, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 283, 284, 286, 298, 305, 313, 314,
315, 316, 319, 320; words of, on hearing of the death of Lorenzo de’
Medici, 343
Festival on St. John’s Day, 95
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
---- Carlo de’ (illegitimate son of Cosimo), 38, 132
---- Chiarissimo de’, 2
---- Clarice de’, 128; marriage festivities of, 129; letter to, from
Rinaldo Orsini, 134; letter to, from Gentile Becchi, 138; letter to,
from Lorenzo, 161; 173; letters to, from Poliziano, 177, 178; letter
from, to Lorenzo, 178; 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 217; letter from, to
Lorenzo on Poliziano, 218; 266, 268, 270, 288, 290, 291; death of,
296, 297; 298
---- Contessina de’, letter from, to her husband Cosimo, 10; letter
from, to her son Giovanni, 14; letters from, to her son Piero, 48, 50;
letters from, to her son Giovanni, 51, 53, 54, 55; letter from, to
Ginevra, 58; letter from, to her son Piero, 62; letter from, to her
son Giovanni and his wife, 62; 71, 74, 80, 109, 111, 113; letter from,
to Lucrezia, 117; 125, 141, 157; letter to, from A. de’ Conio, 158;
162, 172, 173
---- Contessina de’, daughter of Lorenzo, 220; letter to, from her
father, 310
---- Cosimo de’ (Pater Patriæ), 6; description of by Machiavelli, 7;
generosity of, to men of letters, 8; Vespasiano on, 9; letter to,
from his wife, 10; letter from, to his cousin Averardo on Milanese
matters, 11; letters from, to the same on the war with Lucca, 15,
16, 18; diary of, 19; return of, from exile, 28; letter from, to his
son Piero at Venice, 31; goes to Venice, 33; letter to, from Niccolò
Fortebraccio, 34; letter to, from his brother Lorenzo, 35; letters to,
from Count Francesco Sforza about Fortebraccio and the Duke of Milan,
36, 38, 39, 41; letter to, from the same about Foligno, 44; 50, 51;
letter from, to his son Giovanni on the war between Venice and Milan,
52; 53, 54, 56, 57; speech of, to Luca Pitti, 58; letter from, to his
son Giovanni, 59; 60; home life of, 61; 62; letter from, to his son
Giovanni, 63; letter to, from Pius II. on the death of Giovanni, 64;
letters from, to Pius II., 65, 66; letter from, to his son Piero, 70;
assistance given by, to Francesco Sforza, 71; document from Francesco
Sforza bestowing privileges on, 71; letter from, to Ficino, 73; last
illness of, 74; character of, by Ficino, 76; memorandum on death of,
by his son Piero, 77; note of expenses for funeral of, 79; declared
Pater Patriæ, 81; 82, 83, 84; praise of, by Pius II., 84; condolence
on death of, by Louis XI., 85; 144, 151, 152
---- Filigno di Conte de’, Diary of, 2
---- Filippo de’, Archbishop of Pisa, letter from, to Piero about the
marriage contract of Clarice Orsini, 120; letter from, to Lorenzo
announcing marriage by proxy with Clarice Orsini, 127; 168
---- Giambuono, progenitor of the, 1
---- Ginevra de’ (Cavalcanti), wife of Lorenzo, Cosimo’s brother, 10,
41, 80
---- Ginevra de’ (degl’ Alessandri), wife of Giovanni, son of Cosimo,
letter to, from Contessina, 62; 80
---- Giovanni de’, surnamed Bicci, popularity of, 5; advice to his
sons on his deathbed, 6; 151
---- Giovanni de’, son of Cosimo, 14; letter to, from his mother, 46;
letter to, from Alberto de’ Alberti from Rome, 47; letters to, from
his mother, 47, 48, 51, 53, 55, 58, 62; letters to, from his father,
59, 63; death of, 63; 65, 151, 152
---- Giovanni de’, son of Lorenzo, 145; receives the tonsure, is
declared capable of holding benefices at seven years of age, 155;
156, 216, 220, 222, 270, 271; promotion of, to the Cardinalate, 303,
304; receives the Cardinal’s hat, 331; letter of advice to, from his
father, 332; letter from, to his father, 336
---- Giuliano de’, 69, 70, 80, 109, 111, 125, 134; tournament of,
166; 172; letter from, to his mother, 174; 186, 189; murder of, 190;
description of, by Poliziano, 191; 192, 193, 215
---- Guccio de’, 2
---- Lorenzo de’, son of Giovanni Bicci de’, 6, 18, 21, 23, 26; letter
from, to his brother Cosimo, 35; 40; sent to Ferrara to Eugenius IV.
about transferring Œcumenical Council to Florence, 42; 151
---- Lorenzo de’, the Magnificent, letter to, and Giuliano, from his
father, 74; letter to, from Marsilio Ficino, 76; 87; letter from, to
Federigo d’Aragona on the old Tuscan poets, 88; letter to, from his
father, instructions as to his behaviour at Milan, 93; 98, 99; letter
to, from Luigi Pulci, 100; letters to, from his father on the death
of the Duke of Milan, 102, 105; letter to, from Luigi Pulci, 107;
110; letters from, to his mother, 115, 116; letters to, from Luigi
Pulci, 118, 119; 120; letters to, from his uncle about Clarice Orsini,
122, 123; letters to, from Clarice Orsini, 123, 125; tournament of,
126; letter to, from Rinaldo Orsini, 126; letter to, from Maddalena
Orsini, 127; letter to, from the Archbishop of Pisa, 127; wedding
festivities of, 129; 137; journey of, to Milan, 138; letter from,
to his wife, 140; letter from, to his father, 141; education of,
143; description of, by Valori, 144; nature of, by Symonds, 144;
interference of, with deposits in the Monte, 145; influence of L.
B. Alberti on, 146; poetry of, 146; Dr. Creighton on, 149; Marquess
Gino Capponi on, 150; _Ricordi_ of, 150; letter to from Poliziano,
156; letter to, from Pulci at Naples, 159; letter to, from his wife,
161; letter to, from Pulci, 162; letter from, to Sixtus IV., about
making Giuliano a cardinal, 163; letter to, from Ingherami, 165;
letter to, from Filelfo, 166; letters to, from the Cardinal of Pavia
about the Cardinalate for Giuliano, 167, 168; letter to, from Franco,
173; letter to, from Bertoldo, 175; hawking of, at Pisa, 176, 177;
letter to, from his wife, 178; letters to, from his mother at Morba,
179, 182, 183; Pazzi conspiracy against, 186; waxen images of, 191,
192; 193; letter from, to Soderini, 194; letter from, to Lanfredini,
196; letter from, to Louis XI., 198; letter from, to Bettini, 199;
letter to, from Messer Ceccho, 201; letter from, to Bentivoglio, 202;
letters from, to Morelli, 123, 207; letters to, from Poliziano at
Pistoja, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212; letter from, to the King of Spain,
215; letters to, from Poliziano at Cafaggiuolo, 216, 217; letters to,
from his son Piero, 216, 217; letter to, from his wife on dismissal
of Poliziano, 218; letter from, to his mother, 219; letters to, from
his son Piero, 219, 220, 221; letter to, from Pucci, 221; 223, 224,
225, 226; letter from, to Morelli about the Duke of Milan, 227; 228;
letter from, to the Signoria of Florence on his departure for Naples,
229; letter from, to Montecatino, 230; letters to, from Scala, 231,
233, 234; letter to, from the Duchess of Calabria, 236; letter from,
to the Doge of Venice, 239; letter from, to Albino, 240; 241, 244;
letters from, to the Duke and Duchess d’Este on his mother’s death,
244; 246; letter to, from Federigo of Urbino, 246; letters to, from
Baccio at Basel, 247, 249, 252; letter to, from Louis XI., 254; letter
to, from Scala, with a poem, 255; letter to, from Vespucci about
the election of Innocent VIII., 258; letter from, to his son Piero
at Rome, 260; letter to, from Michelozzi, 265; letter from, to Duke
Ercole d’Este, 273; 274, 276, 277; letter from, to Baccio, 278; 280,
281; anger of with Lodovico Sforza, 282, 283, 284; letter from, to
Innocent VIII., 285; 286, 287; letter to, from Poliziano, 288; 290,
291, 292, 293, 294, 295; letter from, to Innocent VIII. on the death
of his wife, 296; 297; letter to, from Stefano, 299; letter to, from
Doctor Avogarius, 301; letter from, to Alamanni about Giovanni’s
nomination as cardinal, 303; letter from, to Innocent VIII. on his son
Giovanni’s nomination as cardinal, 304; 306; share of, in the Medici
bank, 309; letters from, to Lanfredini, Florentine ambassador at Rome,
about Pico della Mirandola, 310, 311, 318, 319; letter from, to his
daughter Contessina, 310; letter from, to P. de Comines, 312; letter
to, from Vettori, Florentine ambassador at Naples, 314; letter from,
to his son Piero, 316; letter from, to the Commissaries of Pistoja,
317; letter from, to Andrea about a racehorse, 317; letter from, to
the King of England, 322; letter to, from Poliziano, 323; letter to,
from Pandolfini, Florentine ambassador at Rome, 325; letter to, from
Doctor P. Leoni about various waters, 327; fortitude of, in bearing
pain, 330, 331; last letter from, advice to his son Cardinal Giovanni
at Rome, 332; letter to, from his son Cardinal Giovanni, 336
---- Lucrezia de’, 48; character of, 49; letter from, to her husband,
50; 51, 59; letters from, to her husband, 60, 61, 69, 74, 107;
letters from, to her husband describing Clarice Orsini, 108, 109,
110, 111; buys the baths of Morba, 113, 114; letters to, from her son
Lorenzo, 115, 116; letter to, from her husband, 115; letter to, from
her mother-in-law, 117; letter to, from her husband, 117; 125, 130;
letter to, from her husband on Lorenzo’s journey to Milan, 137; 141,
143, 151, 162; letter to, from the Syndic of Galatea, 171; letter to,
from Fra Cristofano about her grandchildren, 172; letter to, from her
son Giuliano, 174; letters from, to her son Lorenzo from Morba, 179;
letters to, from her grandchild Lucrezia, 180, 222; letter to, from
Poliziano, 181; letters from, to her son Lorenzo about her departure
from Morba, 182, 183; letters to, from Vicar of Pomerance, 184; letter
to, from Clarice, 213; letter to, from Poliziano at Cafaggiuolo, 213;
letter to, from her son Lorenzo, 219; letter to, from her daughter
Nannina Rucellai, 222; letter to, from her daughter Bianca de Pazzi,
223; letter to, from Poliziano, 224; letter to, from Doctor Oliverio,
235; letters to, from Papinio, 237, 238; death of, 244
---- Lucrezia de’, daughter of Lorenzo, 172; letter from, to her
grandmother Lucrezia, 180; 181, 217, 220; letter from, to her
grandmother, 222; 225
---- Nannina de’, marriage of, 106, 140; letter from, to her mother,
222