LETTERS OF THE EARLY MEDICI

“It has ever been a hobby of mine, though perhaps it is a truism, not a hobby, that the true life of a man is in his letters.... Not only for the interest of a biography, but for arriving at the inside of things the publication of letters is the true method. Biographers varnish, they assign motives, they conjecture feelings, they interpret Lord Burleigh’s nods, but contemporary letters are facts.”—Dr. Newman to his Sister, Mrs. John Mozley, May 18, 1863.

LORENZO DI PIERO DE MEDICI.

From a picture at Poggio a Caiano.

LIVES OF
THE EARLY MEDICI
AS TOLD IN THEIR
CORRESPONDENCE
TRANSLATED & EDITED BY
JANET ROSS

WITH 12 PORTRAITS AND FACSIMILES
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1910