LUCA BETTI,

FLORENTINE

PREACHER, TO NICCOLO

MICHELOZZI OF THE SAME

order, sends greetings.

A small floral ornament is centered here.

A historiated woodcut initial 'L' depicts a figure reclining in a hilly landscape, gesturing towards a break in the clouds through which rays of light emerge. A fortified building is visible in the background.

I have read these days, excellent Niccolo, most willingly, a digression on the immortality of the soul by our own Giovanni Francesco Pico, Lord of Mirandola and Count of Concordia, a man of all letters and, to use a native proverb, a public ergasterion workshop/mint for the age. It was written—as is his custom—during the interpretation of Aristotle’s books on the soul, no less learnedly than eloquently.