Following the theme of luck and damnation of the oldest Florentine'stemma'( Libertas ) in the cycle of paintings conceived by the Grand Duke Cosimo I and Vincenzo Borghini in the, Musci and Savorelli suggest that the motto " CERCA TROVA " was an allusion to the verse of Dante and to the unfortunate fate of the Republicans ( " searching freedom and finding death " ), and thereby dispute Seracini's interpretation of the green flag as hint left by Vasari, of the location and fate of da Vinci's painting.
