The inventory of the Medici Palace at the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Nevertheless, with the help of the Medici inventory, so inestimably precious even in all its terseness, and of the scattered surviving fragments of the former furnishings, an attempt will be made below to arrive at a

conception of what was assembled toward the end of the Quattrocento in the main rooms of the Medici palace, in rich and yet well-ordered, carefully planned abundance and opulence ...