CHAPTER IX.

POLIZIANO IN THE HOME OF THE MEDICI. SCALA AND RUCELLAI.

Poliziano as a Poet and Tutor of the Medici—Poliziano and Madonna Clarice—Winter Residence in Caffagiuolo—Ode to Gentile Becchi—Poliziano’s Letter to Madonna Lucrezia—Dissension between Madonna Clarice and Poliziano—Poliziano in Fiesole—Poliziano and others as Teachers of Piero de’ Medici—Giorgio Benigno—Giovanni Prato—Antonio Barberini—Piero de’ Medici in his Youth—Bartolommeo Scala—Benedetto Accolti—Scala and Lorenzo de’ Medici—Quarrel of Poliziano and Scala—Alessandra Scala—Poliziano’s Quarrel with Marullus—Alamanno Rinuccini—Bernardo Rucellai and the Platonic Academy 63