CHAPTER VI.

LORENZO DE’ MEDICI IN NAPLES. PEACE WITH KING AND POPE.

Lorenzo’s Arrival in Naples—Lorenzo and King Ferrante—Impression produced in Florence by his Decision and the Variety of Opinions—Uncertainty in Florence and in the Romagna—Sixtus IV. and the Peace Negotiations—Sixtus IV. on the Management of the Dispute—Lorenzo’s insecure Position—The Dynasties of the Romagna—Diomede Carafa, Count of Maddalini—Lorenzo’s Connections in Naples—The Royal Family—The Duchess of Calabria—Lorenzo’s Return Home—Proclamation and Conditions of Peace—Insecure Relations with Sixtus IV.—Difficulties of the Affairs of Romagna—The Ordelaffi—Forli in Possession of Girolamo Riario—The Condition of Siena—The Duke of Calabria and the Sienese—Political Agitation in Siena in Favour of the Nobility, at the Instigation of the Duke of Calabria—Conquest of Otranto by the Turks—Retirement of the Duke of Calabria from Siena—Florentine Embassy to Sixtus IV.—Reconciliation and Peace 401

FOURTH BOOK.

_THE MEDICI IN RELATION TO LITERATURE AND ART._

FIRST PART.

HUMANIST AND POPULAR LITERATURE TO THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.