Magnifico (67 page)

“My Contessina”:
Maguire, 177.

“I should be glad if you could mention the matter”:
Ross Williamson, 206.

“The Knight Without Fear”:
Maguire, 186.

“She does not seem particularly good or bad”:
Ibid., 187.

“The brains of these Orsini citizens”:
Ibid., 186.

“To me it seems the King is arrogant and vile”:
Bullard,
Lorenzo il Magnifico,
67.

“[T]his ecclesiastical state”:
Ibid., 136.

“Lorenzo will know that there was never a pope”:
Ibid., 160.

“We have been for twelve or perhaps thirteen years”:
Ibid., 140.

“The Pope seems rather a man in need of advice”:
Ross,
Lives,
259. Guidantonio Vespucci to Lorenzo.

“our affairs here”:
Bullard,
Lorenzo il Magnifico,
145.

“The Magnificent Lorenzo arrived here”:
Ross,
Lives,
280–81.

“The bad health of Madonna Maddalena”:
Ibid., 328–29.

“It is urgent that his Holiness”:
Ibid., 322.

To join the Medici girl to his son Franceschetti: Rendina, 429.

“
He is so strictly bred”:
Van Passen, 87.

“the Pope sleeps with the eyes of the Magnificent Lorenzo”:
Hook, 170.

“that the Florentine ambassador”:
Ibid., 170.

“We had heard that the Pope had made six cardinals”:
Landucci, 47.

“the greatest honor that has ever befallen our house”:
Ross,
Lives,
303. Lorenzo to Piero Alamanni, March 14, 1489.

“was a ladder enabling [Lorenzo’s] house to rise to heaven”:
Machiavelli,
Florentine Histories
VIII, 36.

“that [the nomination] was a thing of such public notoriety”:
Ross,
Lives,
303. Lorenzo to Piero Alamanni, March 14, 1489.

“charismatic center”:
See Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
especially Chapters 13 and 14.

“Blest in your genius”:
Ross Williamson, 224.

the fabled treasury of some Oriental potentate:
See Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
446.

Lorenzo was the greatest Florentine in history:
See F. W. Kent,
Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence,
149. This according to Piero Parenti.

“to whomever wanted it”:
Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
449.

“almost against my will”:
Lorenzo,
Commento,
IV.

“I am a little amazed that you have diminished this
festa
”:
Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
409.

“[I]n these peaceful times”:
Machiavelli,
Florentine Histories,
VIII, 36.

“feast of the devil”:
Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
414.

he lent his own personal tableware:
See ibid., 413.

Lorenzo de’ Medici having conceived the idea:
Ibid., 451.

“We’re going forth to pleasure all”:
Lorenzo, “Song of the Cicadas,” in
Selected Poems and Prose,
160–61.

“Why do we not follow Jesus”:
Van Passen, 52.

“false proud whore”:
Roeder, 10.

“If there is no change soon”:
Van Passen, 89.

“The poor…are oppressed by taxes”:
Roeder,
Man of the Renaissance,
24.

“No one can persuade you that usury is sinful”:
Ibid., 23.

“But already famines and floods”:
Roeder, 5.

“The chief reason I have entered the priesthood”:
Savonarola,
Lettere e Scritti Apologetici,
I. Savonarola to his father, April 25, 1475.

“You have kindled a love for Thee”:
Lorenzo, “Laudi,”
Opere Scelte,
404.

“at present one sees such a lack of virtue”:
Ross,
Lives,
333. Lorenzo to Giovanni, March 1492.

“Here is a stranger come into my house”:
Hook, 181.

“I know a city”:
Van Passen, 95.

“There goes a brave man”:
Ibid., 96.

“I have met Fra Mariano repeatedly”:
Ross Williamson, 237–39.

“He preaches from Cicero and the poets”:
Van Passen, 69.

household items valued at 20,000 florins:
See Landucci, 52.

You are much beholden to our Lord God:
Ross,
Lives,
332–5. Lorenzo to Giovanni, March 1492.

With endless tribulations I have reigned: Lorenzo,
The Martyrdom of Saints John and Paul,
in
Opere Scelte,
101.

“attacking not only the arteries and veins”:
Hibbert,
The House of the Medici,
173.

“The illustrious Lorenzo suffers so acutely”:
Ross Williamson, 262.

“follow that course which appears to be most honorable”:
Hook, 186.

“Pico came and sat by the bed”:
Ross,
Lives,
338.

Thus going to Careggi:
Ibid., 340.

Towards midnight while he was quietly meditating:
Ibid., 337.

To [Savonarola’s] exhortations to remain firm in his faith:
Ibid., 338–39.

“Alas! I shall die”:
Landucci, 52. Landucci adds, “This may not have been so, but it was commonly reported.”

“To the last he had such mastery over himself”:
Ross,
Lives,
339.

“This man, in the eyes of the world”:
Landucci, 54.

Whereas the foremost man of all this city:
Ross Williamson, 269.

Who from perennial streams shall bring: Ross Williamson, 111–12.

EPILOGUE: THE SPIRIT IN THE RING

“It was said when this darkness descended upon Florence”:
Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
458.

“The peace of Italy”:
Frieda, 16.

“That man’s life has been long enough”:
Ross Williamson, 270.

“O most Christian King”:
Schevill,
History of Florence, from the Founding of the City Through the Renaissance,
444.

“My lords of the Eight”:
Trexler,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
470.

“Here come the boys of Fra Girolamo!”:
Landucci, 121.

“We must…conclude”:
Savonarola,
Liberty and Tyranny in the Government of Men,
47.

On the night when Piero Soderini died: Schevill,
Medieval and Renaissance Florence,
470.

“As God has seen fit to give us the Papacy”:
Ross Williamson, 178.

ABBREVIATIONS

AB—Art Bulletin

AH—Art History

ASI—Archivio Storico Italiano

HR—History Review

IS—Italian Studies

JWCI—Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

MAP—Mediceo Avanti il Principato, Archivio di Stato di Firenze

MKIF—Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz

NYT—New York Times

RQ—Renaissance Quarterly

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Online Tratte of Office Holders, 1282–1532.
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