Note 320 — Chapter VI

Lettere di Jacopo da Volterra a P. Innocenzo VIII., published with a commentary by M. Tabarrini in the Arch. Stor. Ital., s. iii. vol. viii. pt. ii. p. 3, et seq. Jacopo Gherardi had been formerly in the service of Cardinal Ammanati. His writings passed into the Venetian archives after the sack of Rome in 1527. The Medicean archives contain a series of despatches relating to this mission. Lorenzo writes from Spedaletto on September 11-19; on the 21st he was in Florence; on October 2-10, at Spedaletto again. He says once: ‘I am here according to my custom, for the care of my health.’