Dear Friends,
Take every opportunity to raise your standing with Florence and the Church, that you may establish yourself as a banker of renown. For as you know the season in Florence has been difficult for the farmers, and the harvest may not sustain us. Even now, there are people going hungry in the streets.
Remember that families like the Albizzi and Strozzi seem to oppose the Medici at every turn. Distribute aid of food and blankets to the poor. Stamp them with the emblem of the Medici Bank so that other families cannot tell the people that although they asked you to help, you do not care for the people of Florence.
If you do not have enough success, I fear other families may overtake the Medici.
I have extended my gesture of good will as a gift to you so that our name and works may prosper.
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To your health and success,
Cousin Vieri