Note 677 — Chapter II · NATURAL SCIENCE IN ITALY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
The details which are most amusing, in Paul. Jov. Elogia, on Tristanus Acunius. On the porcupines and ostriches in the Pal. Strozzi, see Rabelais, Pantagruel, iv. chap. 11. Lorenzo the Magnificent received a giraffe from Egypt through some merchants, Baluz. Miscell. iv. 416. The elephant sent to Leo was greatly bewailed by the people when it died, its portrait was painted, and verses on it were written by the younger Beroaldus.