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Philip Mazzei (1730-1816) was a Florentine who immigrated to the United States in 1773. He was a soldier, writer, and agent for Virginia. Jefferson gave him land south of Monticello, which Mazzei called Colle. Mazzei accompanied Jefferson and Short to parties in Europe, including one given by the La Rochefoucaulds at La Roche-Guyon.
Citation(s):
“Memorandum Books, 1773,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-01-02-0007. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series, Jefferson’s Memorandum Books, vol. 1, ed. James A Bear, Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. 301–354.]
George A. Shackleford, Jefferson’s Adoptive Son: The Life of William Short, 1759-1848 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky Press, 1993), passim.
Peter Thompson, Heir through Hope: Thomas Jefferson's Lifelong Investment in William Short (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), passim.
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