Vasari tells us that he made much money and was very fond of it; also that he liked his young wife to wear light head-dresses both out of doors and in the house, and often dressed her himself.

His master was Verrocchio and his best pupil Raphael.
S.Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, a member of the same family that plotted against the Medici and owned the sacred flints, was born in 1566, and, says Miss Dunbar, [8] "showed extraordinary piety from a very tender age".

When only a child herself she used to teach small children, and she daily carried lunch to the prisoners.

Her real name was Catherine, but becoming a nun she called herself Mary Magdalene.

In an illness in which she was given up for dead, she lay on her bed for forty days, during which she saw continual visions, and then recovered.