The Early Years of Piero di Lorenzo, 1472–1492: Between Florentine Citizen and Medici Princ

Piero’s childhood years promised well. He was born on 5 February 1472 and after an early illness, he was calling out ‘Grandma and daddy, mama’

1 Guicciardini, Storie fiorentine, ed. Roberto Palmarocchi (Bari, 1931), p. 94. 2 Giovanni Battista Picotti, La giovinezza di Leone X (Milan, 1928), p. 369 : ‘l’animo

superbo e impetuoso’; Gaetano Pieraccini, La stirpe de’ Medici di Cafaggiolo (Florence, 1924), p. 169: one of a group of ‘deficienti psichici’.