_Magnifice Frater honorande_,--That priest from Imola has been interrogated. He says Count Girolamo [Riario] sent him here to offer, on the pretext that he had been badly treated, to poison the Count; thinking that we, desiring the Count’s death, would entrust him with poison. We were then to be accused to the Pope, and in the Consistory, and the Count was to show the poison, saying, “See, Lorenzo de’ Medici has attempted to poison me.” He also offered to consign into our hands one of the gates of Imola in order to accuse us before the Pope and the Cardinals so that they might imagine that we were going to make war on the Pope. He has been tortured and shall be put to the question again in order to get everything out of him. God guard thee.--Florence, June 18, 1479. Till to-day there have been eighteen deaths and fourteen new cases [of plague]. Benedetto Nori is one.[259] Lucrezia de’ Medici (_daughter of Lorenzo_) _to her grandmother_ Lucrezia Magnificent and loved as a Mother,--I send you news that we are all well; and I hope you are so too, may God keep us so. I long to see you and pray you to come, for it seems to me a thousand years since I last saw you. Mona Lucrezia mine, I wish you would send me a sash of the _palio_ of Sancto Giovanni, or better still that one from Volterra which was given to you when you stood godmother to me. Piero and Maddalena commend themselves to you and Giovanni begs you to send him some sugar-plums, he says that last time you sent very few. I pray you to answer, for reading your letters is a great comfort to me. No more. Christ guard you from all ill.--Written on July 7, 1479. Your Lucrezia in Cafaggiuolo.[260] Nannina Rucellai _to her mother_ Lucrezia de’ Medici To the honoured hands of the Magnificent Lady Lucrezia de’ Medicis at Careggi.