CHAPTER I.

PIERO DE’ MEDICI, HIS RELATIONS AND FRIENDS.

Piero de’ Medici and his Family—Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’

Medici—Lorenzo de’ Medici—Lorenzo’s Education—Gentile de’

Becchi of Urbino—His Youthful Years and Dispositions—Giuliano

de’ Medici—Bianca de’ Medici Pazzi—The Family of

Pazzi—Andrea, Piero, Jacopo de’ Pazzi and their

Relatives—Nannina de’ Medici Rucellai—The Rucellai—Giovanni

and his Son Bernardo—The Soderini—Lorenzo Soderini and his

Sons Niccolò and Tommaso 167