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Letter #5745

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Palencia, [1527]-09-12

English register:

Valdés is pleased that his actions have won Dantiscus’s acceptance. Dantiscus can always count on him. Valdés will follow Dantiscus’s advice regarding the old man [Chancellor Gattinara]. In this situation, he thinks his coming to Palencia proved to be very much needed. He prefers to recount the whole matter to Dantiscus face to face. He doubts peace will be made with France quickly as some in Palencia hope. He thinks the French move is an attempt to divert the emperor’s attention from Italy. There is no news from Hungary or Genoa. He has found comfortable accommodation, he offers it to Dantiscus, too, if he were to come.


            received Paredes de Nava, [1527]-09-12

Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 58, p. 205 (c.p.)
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 990-992
3lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 1
4excerpt in Latin, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.1

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8245 (TK 7), f. 469

Prints:
1BOEHMER 1899 p. 391-392 (in extenso)
2DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 40, p. 32 (English register)
3VALDÉS 1996 Cartas y documentos, No. 30, p. 93 (in extenso)
4CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 8) p. 147-148 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Clarissimo viro domino Ioannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Johannes Flachsbinder) (*1485 – †1548), eminent diplomat and humanist in the service of the Jagiellons, neo-Latin poet; 1530-1537 Bishop of Kulm; 1537-1548 Bishop of Ermland⌊Ioanni DantiscoIoannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Johannes Flachsbinder) (*1485 – †1548), eminent diplomat and humanist in the service of the Jagiellons, neo-Latin poet; 1530-1537 Bishop of Kulm; 1537-1548 Bishop of Ermland⌋ serenissimi Sigismund I Jagiellon (Zygmunt I) (*1467 – †1548), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1506-1548); Duke of Głogów (Glogau) (1499-1506), Duke of Opava (1501-1506), Governor of Silesia (1504-1506); son of King Kazimierz IV Jagiellon and Elisabeth of Austria⌊regis PoloniaeSigismund I Jagiellon (Zygmunt I) (*1467 – †1548), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1506-1548); Duke of Głogów (Glogau) (1499-1506), Duke of Opava (1501-1506), Governor of Silesia (1504-1506); son of King Kazimierz IV Jagiellon and Elisabeth of Austria⌋ oratori dignissimo.

Salutem plurimam.

Gaudeo, si quid feci aut facio, quod tibi placeat, measque litteras tibi gratas fuisse habeo gratiam, tua enim humanitate adeo me tibi devinxisti, ut si omnia a me officia tibi promiseris, iure tuo facturus sis. De Mercurino Arborio di Gattinara (*1465 – †1530), humanist, jurist, trusted and influential advisor to Charles V; 1501 entered the service of the Habsburgs as legal counsel to Duchess Margaret of Austria, 1504 advisor and President of the Privy Council of Margaret of Austria, after the governoship of the Netherlands was entrusted to her, 1518 Grand Chancellor of Castile and later of Charles V as Roman Emperor, 1529 Cardinal of St. Giovanni a Porta Latina (after the death of his wife, Andreetta Avogadro) (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 12; CE, vol. 2, p. 76-80)⌊seneMercurino Arborio di Gattinara (*1465 – †1530), humanist, jurist, trusted and influential advisor to Charles V; 1501 entered the service of the Habsburgs as legal counsel to Duchess Margaret of Austria, 1504 advisor and President of the Privy Council of Margaret of Austria, after the governoship of the Netherlands was entrusted to her, 1518 Grand Chancellor of Castile and later of Charles V as Roman Emperor, 1529 Cardinal of St. Giovanni a Porta Latina (after the death of his wife, Andreetta Avogadro) (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 12; CE, vol. 2, p. 76-80)⌋ nostro quod cf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Alfonso de VALDÉS ca. 1527-09-11, CIDTC IDL 6782, letter lost⌊monescf. Ioannes DANTISCUS to Alfonso de VALDÉS ca. 1527-09-11, CIDTC IDL 6782, letter lost⌋, curabo sedulo. Fuit certe adventus huc meus plus quam necessarius. Si haberem Erasmicam eloquentiam, non gravarer totam tragoediam tibi describere, sed commodius forsan alias verbis explicabo. Agitur de pace. Nostri credunt se habere rem fere perfectam, sed, ut sententiam meam proferam, The French ⌊GalliThe French ⌋ nostris longe callidiores egregie illudunt nos, quo sub spe pacis decepti rebus Italicis minus provideamus, atque ipsi interea facilius rem suam agant. Existimo nostros, quos nosti, negotium properaturos, ut si fieri possit, ante adventum Mercurino Arborio di Gattinara (*1465 – †1530), humanist, jurist, trusted and influential advisor to Charles V; 1501 entered the service of the Habsburgs as legal counsel to Duchess Margaret of Austria, 1504 advisor and President of the Privy Council of Margaret of Austria, after the governoship of the Netherlands was entrusted to her, 1518 Grand Chancellor of Castile and later of Charles V as Roman Emperor, 1529 Cardinal of St. Giovanni a Porta Latina (after the death of his wife, Andreetta Avogadro) (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 12; CE, vol. 2, p. 76-80)⌊senisMercurino Arborio di Gattinara (*1465 – †1530), humanist, jurist, trusted and influential advisor to Charles V; 1501 entered the service of the Habsburgs as legal counsel to Duchess Margaret of Austria, 1504 advisor and President of the Privy Council of Margaret of Austria, after the governoship of the Netherlands was entrusted to her, 1518 Grand Chancellor of Castile and later of Charles V as Roman Emperor, 1529 Cardinal of St. Giovanni a Porta Latina (after the death of his wife, Andreetta Avogadro) (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 12; CE, vol. 2, p. 76-80)⌋ nostri ad finem usque perducatur. De rebus Ungaricis hactenus audivi nihil nec de Genoa (Genova, Genua, Ianua), city and capital of the homonymous Republic in north-western Italy, Liguria, on the Gulf of Genoa, a seaport from 1528 ally and satellite of Spain⌊IanuaGenoa (Genova, Genua, Ianua), city and capital of the homonymous Republic in north-western Italy, Liguria, on the Gulf of Genoa, a seaport from 1528 ally and satellite of Spain⌋, praeter id, quod ad te scripsi. Nactus sum hospitium satis commodum et quod tibi, si quando Palencia, city in central Spain, Castile and León, 22 km N of Valladolid, from the 11th century the seat of a bishopric, it flourished economically in the 14th-16th centuries⌊hucPalencia, city in central Spain, Castile and León, 22 km N of Valladolid, from the 11th century the seat of a bishopric, it flourished economically in the 14th-16th centuries⌋ venire contigerit, usui esse poterit. Vale.

Postscript:

De pace nihil spero futurum.