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Letter #2073

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Tiedemann GIESE
Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warmiński), 1539-02-17

English register:

Dantiscus thinks there has been no reply from the Thorn (Toruń) Town Council because they have reached an agreement with their adversaries [the Gdańsk (Danzig) Town Council] but do not want this fact to surface.

As for the tax, he intends to proceed like Giese. Others may do as they think fit.

Dantiscus is pained that none of his countrymen (nemo de nostris) stood up for him at the court [on the matter of where to deposit the tax money].

Dantiscus has not yet had news of a Turkish defeat.




Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, address in secretary's hand, BCz, 245, p. 127-130
2copy in Latin, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8249 (TK 11), f. 11

Prints:
1CEID 1/2 No. 41, p. 171-172 (in extenso; English register)

 

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Reverendissime in Christo Pater et Domine, frater et amice carissime et honorande.

Salutem et fraternam commendationem.

Quod Thorn Town Council ⌊ThoronensesThorn Town Council ⌋ non responderint, in causa est, quod cum Gdańsk Town Council ⌊alia parteGdańsk Town Council ⌋ consenserint, in eo quidem notari non velint.[1]

Idipsum cum contributo facturus sum, sicut Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima statuit. Agant alii suo arbitratu. Hoc tamen male me habet, quod in aula nostra credi debet, ex me solo omnia processisse, cum nemo de nostris vel per unum iota testimonium de me dederit. Sed haec, quemadmodum alia eiusmodi, cf. Adagia 283 Susque deque ⌊susque deque feram etc.cf. Adagia 283 Susque deque ⌋

De clade Turcica nihil accepi, paulo post forsan accepturus.[2] Apud me in praesens novi nihil est scientia Dominationis Vestrae Reverendissimae dignum.

Quae diutissime feliciter valeat.

[1 ] In his earlier cf. Tiedemann GIESE to Ioannes DANTISCUS Löbau (Lubawa), 1539-02-13, CIDTC IDL 4767⌊lettercf. Tiedemann GIESE to Ioannes DANTISCUS Löbau (Lubawa), 1539-02-13, CIDTC IDL 4767⌋, Giese complained to Dantiscus that the Thorn Town Council ⌊Thorn Town CouncilThorn Town Council ⌋ had disregarded his excise-related request made on behalf of the burghers of Gdańsk (Danzig, Dantiscum), city in northern Poland, on the Bay of Gdańsk at the mouth of the Vistula, on the Baltic, the biggest and wealthiest of the three Great Prussian Cities (Gdańsk, Thorn (Toruń), and Elbing (Elbląg)) with representation in the Council of Royal Prussia; a member of the Hanseatic League⌊GdańskGdańsk (Danzig, Dantiscum), city in northern Poland, on the Bay of Gdańsk at the mouth of the Vistula, on the Baltic, the biggest and wealthiest of the three Great Prussian Cities (Gdańsk, Thorn (Toruń), and Elbing (Elbląg)) with representation in the Council of Royal Prussia; a member of the Hanseatic League⌋

[2 ] This possibly refers to recapturing the Castelnuovo, fortress, located on the east shore of the Adriatic; today Herceg Novi in Montenegro⌊Castelnuovo fortressCastelnuovo, fortress, located on the east shore of the Adriatic; today Herceg Novi in Montenegro⌋ from the The Ottoman Turks (Turcae) ⌊OttomansThe Ottoman Turks (Turcae) ⌋, which was an epilogue to the Holy League (1538) ⌊Holy LeagueHoly League (1538) ⌋ campaign culminating in the lost battle of Preveza (cf. cf. Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, vol. 3, Philadelphia, 1984 ⌊SETTON 1984cf. Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, vol. 3, Philadelphia, 1984 ⌋, p. 446)