This is the first volume of Alfred von Reumont's historical biography of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Florentine statesman and patron of the arts. It explores his life, his family's role in Renaissance Florence, and the political and cultural world he shaped. Listeners interested in the Renaissance and Italian history will find it a detailed, scholarly account.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
LORENZO DE’ MEDICI VOL. I. LORENZO DE’ MEDICI THE MAGNIFICENT BY ALFRED VON REUMONT TRANSLATED from THE GERMAN by ROBERT HARRISON
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1876 [All rights reserved] TO CINO CAPPONI THE HISTORIAN OF HIS NATIVE CITY WITH RESPECTFUL HOMAGE AND FRIENDSHIP
NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
I ĵƽ bound to confess that it has been no easy task to interpret for
English readers the admirable biography of Lorenzo which Herr von
Reumont has given to the world. His extraordinary talent for research seems to have spent itself freely over every scrap of paper or parchment written or printed on the subject of the Medici and their times that has come within his reach. If these volumes convey to their readers the vivid impression of the Medicean age which may be derived from the original work my humble but laborious duty will not have been undertaken in vain.
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