to, from his mother, 40, 48, 49; letter to, from his wife, 50; 51,
55; goes to Milan to salute Duke Francesco Sforza, 56; letters to,
from his wife, 60, 69; letter to, from his father, 70; letter from, to
his sons on Cosimo’s last illness, 74; memorandum by, on his father’s
death, 84; letter to, from Louis XI. on death of his father, 85;
privilege given to, by Louis XI. to quarter the Lily of France on the
Medici arms, 87; letters from, to his son Lorenzo at Rome, 102, 103;
letter to, from Acciaiuoli, 105; letter from, to Acciaiuoli, 105;
letters to, from his wife, describing Clarice Orsini, 108, 109, 111;
letters from, to his wife, 115, 117; letter to, from Cardinal Latino
Orsini, 120; letter to, from the Archbishop of Pisa, 120; letter from,
to his wife, 137; letter to, from his son Lorenzo, 141; illness and
death of, 142; 151, 154
---- Piero de’, son of Lorenzo, 153, 172, 209, 210, 211; letters from,
to his father, 212, 216, 217, 219, 220, 225; letter to, from his
father, 260; goes to Rome to meet his bride, 288; at Milan for the
wedding of Duke Gian Galeazzo Sforza, 299; letter to, from his father,
316; at his father’s deathbed, 337; declared eligible for all offices,
343
---- Pier Francesco de’, 10, 50, 55, 63, 151, 152
---- Salvestro de’, leads the Florentine army against Giovanni
Visconti, 4; advocates excluding the Guelph nobles from power, 5
Michelozzi, Niccolò, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 265
Milan, Dukes of, _see_ Visconti (to p. 56) then Sforza
Mirandola, Pico della, 208; letters about, from Lorenzo de Medici,
310, 311, 318; 319_n_, 324, 325; at the deathbed of Lorenzo de’
Medici, 338
Montecatino, Antonio, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 230
Montefeltro, Count Guido di, 13
Montesecco, Giovanni Battista da, 187; confession of, 188; refusal of,
to murder Lorenzo de’ Medici in a church, 189
Morba, baths of, 111; description of, 112; 115, 116, 117, 179, 180,
182; bought by Lucrezia de’ Medici, 184; 235, 255; poem on, by Scala,
256; 265; Franco describes journey from, 267; 291
Morelli, Girolamo, Florentine ambassador at Milan, letters to, from
Lorenzo de’ Medici about the war with Sixtus IV. and Naples, 203, 207,
227
N
Naples, King of, _see_ Ferrante, or Ferdinando
Neroni, Diotisalvi, tries to ruin Piero de’ Medici, 82; 83, 84, 99
Niccoli, Niccolò de’, library of, 8
O
Oliviero, Doctor, letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici about Morba, 235
Orsini, Alfonsina, 288, 290, 293, 311
---- Clarice, description of, by Lucrezia de’ Medici, 108, 109, 110;
letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 123, 125; marriage of, by proxy,
127; 128; marriage festivities of, at Florence, 129
---- Latino, Cardinal, 108; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici, 120; 263
---- Maddalena, 108, 124; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 127
---- Rinaldo, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 126; letter from, to
Clarice, 134
---- Virginio, 278, 279, 280
P
Pandolfini, Pier Francesco, Florentine ambassador at Rome, letter
from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 325
Parentucelli, Tomasso, Bishop of Bologna, catalogues Niccoli’s
library, 8
Pavia, Cardinal of, _see_ Ammanati
Pazzi, conspiracy of the, 186; letter of Louis XI. on, to the
Florentine Republic, 192; letter from Louis XI. on, to Sixtus IV., 193
---- Bianca de’, letter to her mother Lucrezia de’ Medici, 223
---- Gugliemo de’, 71, 153, 265
Pisa, 69, 70; meeting of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Don Federigo d’Aragona
at, 87; 92; meeting of Luigi Pulci and Duke of Calabria at, 118, 119;
Giuliano de’ Medici at, 174; Lorenzo de’ Medici hawking at, 176, 177
Pitti, Luca, 56, 57; Gonfalonier of Justice in 1458, 58; Cosimo de’
Medici’s speech to, 58
Pius II., Pope, on Cosimo de’ Medici, 58; entry of, into Florence, 61;
letter from, to Cosimo de’ Medici on his son’s death, 64; letter to,
from Cosimo de’ Medici, 65; letter from, to Piero de’ Medici on his
father’s death, 84
Poliziano, Agnolo, quoted, 9, 57; first letter from, to Lorenzo de’
Medici, 156; life and works of, 156_n_; letters from, to Clarice de’
Medici, 177, 178; letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici, 181; scene in
cathedral when Giuliano de’ Medici was murdered described by, 190;
Giuliano described by, 191; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici from
Pistoja, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212; letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici
from Cafaggiuolo 213; letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 216, 217;
letter from, to Lucrezia de’ Medici, 224; letter from, to Lorenzo de’
Medici, 288; letter from, to the same from Padua, 323; 330; letter
from, to Jacopo Antiquario, describing the death of Lorenzo de’
Medici, 336
Pope Eugenius IV., 26_n_; arrival of, in Florence for the Œcumenical
Council, 41; 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 53
---- Innocent VIII., election of, 258; 260, 261, 262, 265; Lorenzo
de’ Medici on, 277; 280, 282; cowardice of, 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; letter to, from Lorenzo de’
Medici on the nomination of his son to the Cardinalate, 304; letter
to, from the same about Francesco Cibò, 306; 309, 310, 311, 312, 313,
314, 316, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 335, 336
---- Paul II., 102, 104, 135
---- Pius II., 56; entry of, into Florence, 61; letter from, to Cosimo
de’ Medici, 64; letters to, from Cosimo de’ Medici, 65, 66; letter
from, to Piero de’ Medici on his father’s death, 84
---- Sixtus IV., 155, 156, 167; implicated in the Pazzi conspiracy,
186, 187, 188; letter to, from Louis XI. on the Pazzi conspiracy, 193;
196, 197, 199; letter from, to the Duke of Urbino, 205; 208, 221, 222,
234, 245, 248, 253; death of, 258
Pucci, Antonio, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, 221
---- Puccio, prudence and sagacity of, 7; 8
Pulci, Bernardo, 100_n_, 118
---- Luca, 100_n_, 125
---- Luigi, letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici, about going to Rome,
100; letter from, to the same, 107; letters from, to the same from
Pisa, 118, 119; 150; letter from, to the same from Naples, 159; letter
from, to the same from Rome, 162
R
Riario, Girolamo, nephew of Sixtus IV., 175; joins in the Pazzi
conspiracy, 187, 188; accused by Louis XI. of aiding in the murder
of Giuliano de’ Medici, 193; 242, 243; plans attack on the Duke of
Ferrara, 243; 254
---- Piero, 186, 187
_Ricordi_, or Diary of Filigno de’ Medici, 2
---- of Cosimo de’ Medici, 19
---- of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 128, 141, 150
Roberti, Niccolò, letter to the Duke Borso d’Este, 176
Robbia, Luca della, 84
Rovere, Giuliano della, _see_ Vincula, S. Piero in
Rucellai, Bernardo, marries Nannina de’ Medici, 106; 140, 265
---- Giovanni, 107
---- Nannina, letter to her mother Lucrezia de’ Medici, 222
S
Sacchetti, Francesco, 5; on the sale of Christian slaves, 29
Salviati, Francesco, Archbishop of Pisa, joins in the Pazzi
conspiracy, 187, 188, 189; tries to seize the Palace of the Signoria,
190; is hung, 191
Sansoni, Raffaello, Cardinal of S. Giorgio, involved in the Pazzi
conspiracy, 189, 190, 196
Savonarola, Fra Girolamo, 338, 339; at the deathbed of Lorenzo de’
Medici, 340
Scala, Bartolommeo, letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici at Naples,
231, 233, 234; letter from, to the same at Morba, 255; poem by, 256
Sforza, Count Francesco, 32, 33; letters to Cosimo de’ Medici, 36, 38,
39, 44; becomes Duke of Milan, 56; 58, 60; document from, conferring
privileges on the Medici, 71; 87; death of, 99; letters from Piero de’
Medici to his son Lorenzo on the death of, 102, 103
---- Galeazzo Maria, entry of, into Florence, 60; speech of, to the
Signoria of Florence, 60; describes a dinner at Careggi, 61; 94;
succeeds his father as Duke of Milan, 99; 104, 153, 170; murder of, 187
---- Lodovico (Il Moro), 227, 228, 274, 275, 276, 279, 280, 281, 282,
283, 284, 286, 287_n_, 314, 315
---- Gian Galeazzo, Duke of Milan, marriage of, 299
Sgnippi, Bartolommeo, letter from, to Montecatino, Ferrarese
ambassador to Florence, on an attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de’
Medici, 241
Silvestro, Fra, 339, 340
Sixtus IV., Pope, 149, 186; grievances of, against Florence, 187;
participation of, in the Pazzi conspiracy, 188; letter to, from Louis
XI. about the Pazzi conspiracy, 193; 196, 197, 203; letter from, to
the Duke of Urbino, 205; 208, 245, 246, 249, 253; death of, 258
Slaves in Florence in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 29
Soderini, Tommaso, influence of, 144; letter to, from Lorenzo de’
Medici on engaging condottieri for the war against the Pope and
Naples, 194
Spain, King of, letter to, from Lorenzo de’ Medici, 215
Strozzi, Filippo, quoted, on the Pazzi conspiracy, 190
Symonds, John Addington, quoted, 8, 9, 92, 144, 177
T
Tolfa, or Tofa, La, alum mines of, 98
Tornabuoni, Francesco, 17, 49
---- Francesco, letters from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici about Clarice
Orsini, 122, 123
---- Giovanni, 49, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 116, 120, 122, 123,
124, 134, 163, 168, 170, 186, 210, 211, 225, 261, 263, 264, 303
Tournament of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 123, 124, 125
---- of Giuliano de’ Medici, 176
U
Urbino, Count and Duke of, Federigo, 104, 136_n_, 141, 163, 164;
letter to, from Sixtus IV. abusing Lorenzo de’ Medici, 205; letter
from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici asking for reinforcements, 246
V
Valois, Marguerite de, 112
Valori, Niccolò, 49; quoted, 144
Vasari, Giorgio, quoted, 84, 191
Verrocchio, Andrea, 191; designs waxen images of Lorenzo de’ Medici,
192
Vespasiano da Bisticci, quoted, 8, 9
Vespucci, Guidantonio, letter from, from Paris to the Ten of the
Balìa, 226; letter from, to Lorenzo de’ Medici from Rome on the
election of Innocent VIII., 258
Vettori, Pietro, Florentine ambassador at Naples, letter from, to
Lorenzo de’ Medici, 314
Vincula, S. Piero in, Cardinal, _see_ Rovere
Visconti, Filippo Maria, Duke of Milan, 11, 13, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 56
---- Giovanni, Archbishop and Lord of Milan, 4
W
Waxen images of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 192
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Transcriber’s Notes
Unusual spellings in the Italian transcriptions of facsimile letters
were retained as originally published.
The original publisher swapped the letter transcriptions facing pages
50 and 206; these have been restored to the correct places.
In addition to the below changes, several minor punctuation and
typographical errors have been fixed.
Page xvi and 289: changed ‘Babbiena’ to ‘Bibbiena’.
Page 19: changed ‘Acciaioli’ to ‘Acciaiuoli’.
Page 32: in the original publication, the last four letters of ‘Corro’
are surmounted by a large tilde.
Page 40: changed ‘Vicesomes’ to ‘Vicecomes’.
Page 107: changed ‘Aloyius’ to ‘Aloysius’.
Page 139: changed ‘Capezano’ to ‘Capezzano’.
Page 181: changed ‘Ridofo’ to ‘Ridolfo’.
Page 186: changed ‘1748’ to ‘1478’.
Page 202: changed ‘Saterno’ to ‘Salerno’.
Page 236: changed ‘Giocacchino’ to ‘Giovacchino’.
Page 298: paragraph beginning with ‘Lorenzo’s grief’ separated from
above letter.
Page 323: changed ‘Aldobrandini’ to ‘Aldovrandini’.
Page 346: changed ‘John XXII.’ to ‘John XXIII.’
Footnote 161: changed ‘Argiropulos’ to ‘Argyropoulos’.