Dedication
TO
CINO CAPPONI
THE HISTORIAN OF HIS NATIVE CITY
WITH
RESPECTFUL HOMAGE AND
FRIENDSHIP
Note by the Translator
I am bound to confess that it has been no easy task to interpret for English readers the admirable biography of Lorenzo which Herr von Reumont has given to the world. His extraordinary talent for research seems to have spent itself freely over every scrap of paper or parchment written or printed on the subject of the Medici and their times that has come within his reach. If these volumes convey to their readers the vivid impression of the Medicean age which may be derived from the original work my humble but laborious duty will not have been undertaken in vain.
R. H.
London Library: June 1876.