Note 393 — Chapter I

In Desjardins, Négociations, i. 417, there is a letter of Commines to this Spinelli, dated Vienne, August 6, 1494, relating to the affairs of Piero de’ Medici. Spinelli, whom Commines (Mémoires, book vii. ch. vii.) calls homme de bien en son estat et assey nourri en France, had just then been sent out of France at the beginning of the war. Piero sent him to negotiate with Charles VIII. on his approach.