I - EPISTOLA TO FREDERICK OF ARAGON

...your mind my devotion and singular love toward Your Lordship Italian: Signoria. A formal title of respect for a high-ranking noble.; which, if they are not worthy to be numbered among such marvelous writings of ancient poets, at least to provide a contrast to the others and make them appear even more elegant by comparison, it will perhaps not have been useless to have joined them together Lorenzo is referring to his own poems, which he included at the end of this collection (the Aragonese Anthology) alongside the great masters like Dante and Petrarch..

May Your most illustrious Lordship, therefore, receive both these works and myself, not only into your home, but into your heart and mind, just as Your Lordship continually and joyfully dwells within our own heart and soul.

Farewell. original: "Vale." A traditional Latin closing for a letter.