10 June, 1512
Pisa
LETTER IV.
Magnificent Signori, etc.: —Day before yesterday your courier Domenico arrived with the money to pay the garrisons of the citadel and gates. They were all paid yesterday, in such manner as I shall report verbally and in detail to your Lordships on my return to Florence, which will be in six or eight days after I shall have done what the Illustrious Nine have instructed me to do in relation to the organization of the cavalry. I recommend myself to your Lordships, quæ bene valeant.
ServitorNiccolo Machiavelli, Secret.
Pisa, 10 June, 1512.