That I might take part in everything, and bear me like the rest, I did tilt in the Piazza of Santa Croce—which tilting occasioned an outlay of ten thousand florins—and although I was very vigorous neither of my years nor of blows, yet was the first prize awarded unto me, namely, a helmet adorned with silver and having a figure of Mars for the crest.
Per eseguire e fare come gli altri, giostrai in sulla piazza di Santa Croce con grande spesa, e grande sunto; nella quale trovo si spese circa fiorini 10 mila di sugello; e ben che d’armi e di colpi non fussi molto strenuo, mi fu giudicato il primo onore, cioè un elmetto fornito d’ariento, con un Marte per cimiero.
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On the jousting tournament held in the Piazza Santa Croce on 7 February 1468, in Lorenzo's Ricordi (c. 1483–5), reported in Isidoro Del Lungo, Women of Florence, tr. Mary C. Steegmann (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907) p. 190