Note 566 — Chapter VIII

The story of Lorenzo’s last days may be read in the long letter written by Poliziano from the villa at Fiesole on May 18, 1492, to Jacopo Antiquario of Perugia, Pol. Epist. 1. iv. ep. 2, in Fabroni, l. c. i. 199-212, and in Roscoe, Ap. No. LXXVII. Cf. G. B. Vermiglioli, Memoire di Jacopo Antiquario (Perugia, 1813). Politian’s letter is a rhetorical composition full of unctuous phrases, but highly valuable as containing the testimony of an eye-witness.