Note 266 — LORENZO DI PIERO DE’ MEDICI (continued 2)

Bernardo Michelozzi, son of the great architect and sculptor, brother of Lorenzo’s chancellor. He was known as Bernardo Rhetor on account of his learning and eloquence. Giovanni de’ Medici, afterwards Leo X., to whom he was tutor, made him Cameriere segreto, and in 1516 Bishop of Forlì, and allowed him to assume the name and the arms of the house of Medici.