Rucellai remained loyal to Strozzi after the banishment of the latter to Padova by Cosimo de' Medici in November 1434, and for about 27 years he took no part in public life.

The wedding feast was famous for its opulence: 500 guests were seated on a daïs which occupied the loggia and the whole of the piazza and the street in front of Palazzo Rucellai.

[1] Giovanni di Paolo was an important patron of the arts, matched only by Cosimo de' Medici in fifteenth-century Florence.

[1] His most notable donation, the marble façade by Alberti for Santa Maria Novella, was but one of the family's commissions of public art.

[4]: 105 [6] Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai was well-acquainted with the classics and he kept a Zibaldone into which he copied his translations of passages from Greek and Latin authors such as Aristotle, Boethius and Seneca the Younger.