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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. In Memoriam xiii
5. Notes on Translations and Editions Used xv
6. Introduction: An Interpretive Essay 1
7. 1. The Life of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi: An Overview 27
8. 2. Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli 79
9. 3. A History of the Pistola fatta per la peste: Its Manuscripts and Publication History, and a Close Reading of the Text 109
10. Conclusion: Pistola, Patron, Client, and the Proposed Strozzi Marriage of 1525 143
11. Figures 155
12. Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste: An Italian Edition and an English Translation 161
13. Appendix 1: Banco Rari 29 Supplemental Transcriptions Related to, but Not Part of, the Pistola fatta per la peste 211
14. Appendix 2: Francesco Zeffi’s “Vita” of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi 215
15. Appendix 3: A Recipe for an Antidote against the Plague by Mengo Bianchelli 239
16. Appendix 4: Niccolò Machiavelli’s Minuta di Provvisione per la Riforma dello Stato di Firenze L’Anno 1522 241
17. Bibliography 251
18. Index 269