MEDICI, COSIMO I DE. Letter Signed, "Il Duca di Fiorenza," to Captain Alfeo...

MEDICI, COSIMO I DE. Letter Signed, "Il Duca di Fiorenza," to Captain Alfeo Almenni, in Italian, ordering his troops to return to their homes and prepare for an order to march. 1/2 page, oblong 4to, with integral address leaf; mounted to larger board, moderate scattered dampstaining, moderate scattered ink burn, loss to few letters of date, separations at folds repaired verso with paper, faint scattered foxing. Florence, June 1550

". . . [O]rder [the troops] to return to their homes, and to be prepared with their weapons to march when we order them to do so."