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him. I should like you to ask His Magnificence to
see that this man binds the book, and, as I have said,
that the binding should be done in the best possible
manner. The cover should be made of leather with
the greatest care and diligence, and adorned with
ornaments of knots and foliage, or panels and com-
partments of some other description, as seems best
to His Magnificence. I beg you to take the greatest
pains in the matter, because I care about this more
than I can say. When the volume is ready, you will
pack it up very carefully in paper so that it cannot
suffer any damage. Of these hundred books, I wish
you to send fifty to me in Spain—%.p., forty-nine
bound copies and the vellum one which I have
already mentioned—and see that they are all placed
in boxes and packed together in one case, well
fastened and wrapt in waxed cloth. I wish the case
to be consigned to the care of M. Selvago de Negroni
and M. Nicola Lomellino, who are Genoese merchants
in Venice, and have given them orders to send this
box to Genoa, and from Genoa to me in Spain,
These are my wishes with regard to fifty of the
books.
' Of the other fifty that remain, you will, as I said
above, allow the Lord Bishop of Bayeux to dispose
of as many copies as he chooses, and the same with
regard to M. Gio. Batt. Ramusio and M. Gio.
Francesco Valerio. I wish you also to have one
copy bound for the Lord Marquis, one for Madama
Illustrissima/ one for the Lady Duchess of Urbino,^
one for Madonna Emilia, one for Madonna Mar-
gherita Cantelma,^ another for Count Nicola, and
two other copies which his lordship will send in my
name, the one to the Contessa di Somagliad and the
other to the Marchesa di Scaldasole.^ I wish all of
these to be bound, and the remaining copies sent to
^ Isabella d' Este. 2 Leonora Gonzaga.
3 Margherita Maroscelli of Ferrara, widow of Sigismondo Can-
telmo, Duke of Sora.
4 Margherita Trivulzio. 5 Ippohta Fioramonda of Pavia.
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him. I should like you to ask His Magnificence to
see that this man binds the book, and, as I have said,
that the binding should be done in the best possible
manner. The cover should be made of leather with
the greatest care and diligence, and adorned with
ornaments of knots and foliage, or panels and com-
partments of some other description, as seems best
to His Magnificence. I beg you to take the greatest
pains in the matter, because I care about this more
than I can say. When the volume is ready, you will
pack it up very carefully in paper so that it cannot
suffer any damage. Of these hundred books, I wish
you to send fifty to me in Spain—%.p., forty-nine
bound copies and the vellum one which I have
already mentioned—and see that they are all placed
in boxes and packed together in one case, well
fastened and wrapt in waxed cloth. I wish the case
to be consigned to the care of M. Selvago de Negroni
and M. Nicola Lomellino, who are Genoese merchants
in Venice, and have given them orders to send this
box to Genoa, and from Genoa to me in Spain,
These are my wishes with regard to fifty of the
books.
' Of the other fifty that remain, you will, as I said
above, allow the Lord Bishop of Bayeux to dispose
of as many copies as he chooses, and the same with
regard to M. Gio. Batt. Ramusio and M. Gio.
Francesco Valerio. I wish you also to have one
copy bound for the Lord Marquis, one for Madama
Illustrissima/ one for the Lady Duchess of Urbino,^
one for Madonna Emilia, one for Madonna Mar-
gherita Cantelma,^ another for Count Nicola, and
two other copies which his lordship will send in my
name, the one to the Contessa di Somagliad and the
other to the Marchesa di Scaldasole.^ I wish all of
these to be bound, and the remaining copies sent to
^ Isabella d' Este. 2 Leonora Gonzaga.
3 Margherita Maroscelli of Ferrara, widow of Sigismondo Can-
telmo, Duke of Sora.
4 Margherita Trivulzio. 5 Ippohta Fioramonda of Pavia.