To the Podesta of Dicomani and of Ponte-a-Sieve, at Sieve.

The bearer of this is our Secretary, Niccolo Machiavelli, whom we send to Sieve to attend to certain business with which we have charged him. We desire you will comply with all his requests, and render him all assistance and favor as though we asked it for ourselves personally.

It would seem that the last region to which Machiavelli went for the above purpose was the Casentino, as is seen from the following documents: —