Pier Filippo Pandolfini, Florentine Ambassador at Rome, to Lorenzo de’ Medici 325 Piero Leoni of Spoleto to Lorenzo de’ Medici 326 Matteo Franco at Rome to Ser Piero Dovizi at Florence 327 Manfredo di Manfredi, Ambassador from Ferrara to Florence, to the Duke Ercole d’Este 330 Lorenzo de’ Medici to his son, Cardinal Giovanni, at Rome, in March 1492 332 Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici to his father Lorenzo 336 Poliziano’s letter to Jacopo Antiquario describing the death of Lorenzo de’ Medici 336 Bartolommeo Dei to his uncle Benedetto Dei, with Machiavelli in Ferrara 341 INDEX 345 ILLUSTRATIONS Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici _Frontispiece_ _From a picture at Poggio a Caiano_ Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici _To face page_ 7 _From the marble relief by Andrea Del Verrocchio (?) in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin_ Letter from Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici 10 Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici 31 _By Jacopo da Pontormo. In the Convent of S. Marco, Florence_ Letter from Contessina de’ Medici 46 Letter from Lucrezia de’ Medici 50 Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici 82 _Detail from the fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Chapel of Palazzo Riccardi, Florence_ Letter from Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici 94 Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici 143 _In the Museo Giovio (Villa Soave, Como)_ Letter from Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici 206 Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici 212 _Detail from the fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Church of S. Trinità, Florence_ Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, and three members of the Sasseti family 312 _In the fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Church of S. Trinità, Florence_ LETTERS OF THE EARLY MEDICI INTRODUCTORY