Note 173 — LORENZO DI PIERO DE’ MEDICI
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Luca Landucci in his Diary (1450-1516) notes: “On June 18, 1472, came a horseman with the olive branch [from Volterra] announcing the capitulation; the people and their property to be respected. Great was the rejoicing. But when we entered the city one of their officers, a Venetian, shouted “Pillage,” and our men began to pillage and we could not stop them or observe the articles of capitulation. The Count Federigo d’Urbino caused the Venetian and a Sienese to be hung.” Diario Fiorentino di Luca Landucci. Firenze, 1883. See also La Vita Italiano nel Rinascimenta, Lorenzo de’ Medici, E. Masi, i. 31. Milano, 1893.