Note 366 — LORENZO DI PIERO DE’ MEDICI (continued 4)
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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.