Niccolo Machiavelli (Machiavelli, Niccolo)
25 July, 1510
Blois

LETTER V.

Magnificent Signori, etc.: —

I have received through Francesco Pandolfini two of your Lordships’ letters of the 12th instant. . . . . I shall write to-morrow to your Lordships more fully and more at my ease, and send these lines merely to acknowledge receipt of those letters, as a courier is just leaving for Milan; I send this under cover to Francesco Pandolfini. Since my being here I have written to your Lordships on the 18th, 21st, and 22d; and earnestly hope those letters have reached you safely. The French have received good news this morning from Genoa, and are all in the highest spirits about it. Valete!

Servitor
Niccolo Machiavelli,

Secret.
Blois, 25 July, 1510.