Front matter
Ninian Hill Thomson translation
CITIZEN AND SECRETARY OF FLORENCE
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY
NINIAN HILL THOMSON, M.A.
LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1883
TO PROFESSOR PASQUALE VILLARI.
DEAR PROFESSOR VILLARI,
Permit me to inscribe your name on a translation of Machiavelli’s Discourses which I had your encouragement to undertake, and in which I have done my best to preserve something of the flavour of the original. Yours faithfully,
NINIAN HILL THOMSON.
FLORENCE, May 17, 1883.