“Lorenzo’s intellectual life is demonstrated by his library, which included books collected by his grandfather and father and enhanced by his own purchases. He bought and commissioned books voraciously; it has been estimated that he expanded the manuscripts alone from the two hundred he inherited to one thousand at his death … The famous Medici collection of books, compiled over three generations by Cosimo, Piero, and Lorenzo, was kept in a library on the fourth floor, though it was not inventoried.”
—Richard Stapleford, ed., Lorenzo de’ Medici at Home, pp. 9, 13
