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Ridolfo did not disdain also to make pennons, standards, and other suchlike things in plenty, and I remember having heard him say that three times he had painted the banners of the Potenze, which used every year to hold tournaments and keep the city festive.
F. Calvi, Bianca Maria Sforza. C. Trivulzio in A. S. L., iii. 530. V. Delaborde, L'Expédition de Charles VIII. en Italie, p. 228. G. Uzielli, op. cit., p. 6. Archivio di Milano, Potenze esterne Francia. Luzio Renier, op. cit., p. 348.
In like manner he made many beautiful embellishments and decorations of his own invention for the Potenze and their tournaments.
He lived sixty-seven years, at the end of which he finished the course of his life after an ordinary malady, a kind of fever; and he was buried in the Church of S. Ambrogio at Florence, on the day of S. Andrew the Apostle, in 1544. The "Potenze" were merry companies composed of the men of the various quarters in costume.
He painted banners, and designed costumes for the processions of the "potenze," a festive company, the origin of which is uncertain, but dating certainly from the Middle Ages. Each quarter of the city had an emperor, lords, and dignitaries, each of whom carried his banner or emblazonment. Grand processions, tournaments, and feasts were held once a year, on S. John's Day, by the potenze.
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