Married Life for Clarice and Lorenzo

From "Lives of the early Medici, as told in their correspondence:"

On March 15, 1472 Lorenzo di Piero di Medici began his memoirs, in which he wrote:

"I, Lorenzo, took to  wife, Clarice, daughter of Lord Jacopo Orsini, or rather she was give (i.e. betrothed) to me in December 1468, and the marriage was celebrated in our house on June 4, 1469.  Till now I have by her two children, a girl called Lucrezia, of  . . . years, and a boy names Piero, of . . . months.  Clarice is again with child.  God preserve her to us for many years and guard us from all evil.  Twin boys were born prematurely at five or six months, they lived long enough to be baptized."

Clarice spent the majority of her married life at the Villa Careggio, pictured above, a building still in use today.