Chapter 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

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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’.