Lives of the early Medici

LETTERS OF THE EARLY MEDICI

Reading edition

“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.

Illustration from Lives of the early Medici: As told in their correspondence

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