Niccolo Machiavelli (Machiavelli Niccolo)
20 February, 1509 Niccolo Capponi (Capponi, Niccolo)

LETTER I.
TO NICCOLO CAPPONI, COMMISSARY-GENERAL, ETC.

Magnificent Signore: —

I send you the enclosed, which please forward at once with your usual promptness to Florence. I have nothing else to communicate to your Magnificence except that we are here at the mill of Quosi, to watch whether any new convoy of boats is attempting to come in, and to prevent it as we have done the others. I will only remind you to continue to send us bread every day, as you have done hitherto, as we rely entirely upon you for this supply.

Nothing else occurs to me to say except to recommend myself to your Magnificence, and may God guard you.

Niccolo Machiavelli,

Secretary.
From our Camp, 20 February, 1509.