. Men and manners of old Florence. eparing the ground for hisreturn to Florence and the carrying out of thedecisions arrived at in the secret consultation withthe Pope, he wrote to Vettori begging for his help andadvice. Vettoris answer contained an amplificationof the plans he had already drawn up at the Popesrequest for the better government and organisationof the city, and concluded with these words: You write to me with Tullia beside you, butI would not have you also read my reply with herby your side ; you are in love with her and holdher to be a woman of spirit, but I do not desirethat s
. Men and manners of old Florence. eparing the ground for hisreturn to Florence and the carrying out of thedecisions arrived at in the secret consultation withthe Pope, he wrote to Vettori begging for his help andadvice. Vettoris answer contained an amplificationof the plans he had already drawn up at the Popesrequest for the better government and organisationof the city, and concluded with these words: You write to me with Tullia beside you, butI would not have you also read my reply with herby your side ; you are in love with her and holdher to be a woman of spirit, but I do not desirethat she should injure me with any of those whomI have named in my letter. I do not presume toadmonish Filippo Strozzi, although, if admonitionscorrected faults, ye would take no offence thereat;but I have heard of I know not what challenges beingsent out, which have troubled me, thinking howthat a man such as you are, forty-three years old,was desirous of fighting for a womans sake. Andalthough I do think ye would be as successful with. Phoio\ FILIPPO STROZZI. face i^age 162. TULLIA OF ARRAGON 163 arms as ye are with letters, and all other things towhich ye give your mind, I would not that ye shouldat this present time expose yourself to the dangerof fighting for so trifling a cause ; moreover, I wouldremind you that of men such as yourself but feware born in each century, and I do not say thisout of flattery. Settle your affairs and then returnunto us here. This Filippo Strozzi who wrote about the mostsecret political business with TuUia by his side, andwho esteemed her intelligence so highly that he wouldeven read her Vettoris letter, who loved her tothe extent of sending out challenges in defence ofher honour : this gentleman of forty-three who wentstraight from a secret council with the Pope, theCardinals Salviati and Ridolfi, Jacopo Salviati andRuberto Pucci to the salon of the courtesan, is thegenuine type of the Florentine gentleman of thetime described by Benvenu
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