Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Life in Letters
Maria’s Early Life
Maria as Wife
Maria as Widowed Mother
Lady Maria: Dowager Queen
Lady Maria: Manager of the Children’s Court and Wise Elder
Remembering Maria
Maria Salviati de’ Medici as Letter Writer
The Afterlife of Maria’s Correspondence
Note on the Translation and Edition
Selected Letters
Letters 1–40: Maria as Wife, 1514–1526
Letters 41–75: Maria as Widowed Mother, 1527–1536
Letters 76–150: Lady Maria, 1537–1543
Appendix A: List of Selected Letters
Appendix B: Genealogical Tables
Appendix C: Names, Dates, Measures, Currency, and Time
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Maria Salviati de’ Medici (1499–1543) was a Medici daughter, wife, and mother. Natalie R. Tomas is an adjunct senior research fellow and an associate of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Medici Women.