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Letter #5782

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1526-09-18 — 1526-12-10 or 1527-01-26 — 1527-08-23 or 1527-10-18 — 1528-07-26 or 1528-08-19 — 1528-12-17 or 1529-04-20 — 1529-07-27 or 1529-08-12 — 1529-10-18 or 1529-11-05 — 1530-04-19 or 1530-06-26 — 1530-11-23 or 1530-12-19 — 1531-06-15 or 1531-06-30 — 1531-11-28 or 1531-12-12 — shortly before 1532-01-17]

English register:

Valdés asks Dantiscus to forgive him for not coming to dinner. He excuses himself with being extremely busy, whereas the next day at eleven o’clock he is setting off to follow the emperor. He will drop in on the way to say goodbye.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 47, p. 187 (c.p. 2)
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 979-980
3lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 4

Auxiliary sources:
1register in English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.4

Prints:
1CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 59) p. 262 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Ignosce, obsecro, meam incivilitatem, quod ad te non venerim. Quod si scires, quibus curis hactenus distensus fuerim, sat scio veniam mihi facile donares. Cras hora undecima decrevi sequi Charles V of Habsburg (*1500 – †1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily, King of the Romans (1519-1530), Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation (elected 1519, crowned 1530, abdicated 1556); son of Philip I the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile⌊caesaremCharles V of Habsburg (*1500 – †1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily, King of the Romans (1519-1530), Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation (elected 1519, crowned 1530, abdicated 1556); son of Philip I the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile⌋. Pranderem libens tecum, sed meis omnibus essem incommodo. Pertransiens tamen istac tibi salutem dicam.

Interim vale.