Die Sforza III: Isabella von Aragon und ihr Hofmaler Leonardo da Vinci
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"In 1478, when he [Piero II.] was seven years old, he tells his father that he has already learned many verses of Virgil, 'and the master [Agnolo Poliziano] makes me decline and examines me every day.' Then he adds with pardonable pride: 'Also I know the first book of Teodoro by heart, and I think I understand it.' He must mean Teodoro Gaza's Greek Grammar.“ (in: Christopher Hare: The Most Illustrious Ladies of the Italian Renaissance. London and New York 1904, pp. 67-68). In 1479 Piero II wrote the following letter about his brothers and sisters to his father in Latin: “Giovanni is beginning to spell ... Giuliano does nothing but laugh; Lucrezia sews, sings and reads; Maddalena bangs her head against the wall without hurting herself; Luigia begins to say a few tiny words; Contessina fills the whole house with her noise.” (in: Lacy Collison-Morley: The early Medici. London 1935, p. 174)
"Piero [II. de' Medici] had, of course, been admirably educated. Intellectually he was distinctly more gifted than Giovanni [his brother, the future Pope Leo X.] ...Though without his father’s touch of genius, he had a natural facility in writing verse ... and which, in his case, amounted almost to a talent for improvisation. Though hot-tempered and resentful, he bore no grudge for the most villainous insults heaped upon himself in the rhyming competitions in which he liked to take part. He was also an eloquent and attractive speaker and a good talker ... Tall and strongly built, with a quick eye and a sure hand, he was a notable athlete. ... Of football especially he was passionately fond ..." (in: Lacy Collison-Morley: The early Medici, London 1935, p. 215)
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