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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Medici Archives, Consisting of Rare Autograph Letters, Records and Documents, 1084-1770: Including One Hundred and Sixty-Six Holograph Letters of Lorenzo the Magnificent It will be noticed that almost all of Lorenzo's letters now before us are addressed to Pietro Alamanni, Florentine ambassador at Milan, and afterwards at Rome and Naples. The other papers composing the section whose presence here we have to explain are letters received by Lorenzo and sent on by him to Alamanni for reference, copies of Lorenzo's instructions to other ambassadors or of their despatches to him, the Florentine government's instructions to Alamanni, Alamanni's letter-books, and a few...
Features the Medici Archive Project, which focuses on the Medici Granducal Archive in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, Italy. The archive offers the most complete record of any princely regime in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. The Project will index the archive through a database called "The Medici Granducal Archive: Documentary Sources for the Arts and Humanities (1537-1743)" which will include indexes for people, portraits, places, and topics. Also being developed are projects which document Jewish history and the history of costume and textiles as reflected in the archives.