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Letter #3857

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Isabel [DELGADA]
[Löbau (Lubawa)], 1537-03-16

English register: Dantiscus refuses to send Isabel 200 ducats in exchange for his daughter Juana’s coming to Prussia. He protests to Isabel that she must surely think Juana is not his child if she is trying to sell her to him, as normally the owner does not have to buy his own property. He reproaches Isabel for her meeting with another man in Seville. As a final solution, he offers her an annual salary of 20 ducats if she sends his daughter to him through Ehinger.
            received [ca. 1537-06-30]

Manuscript sources:
1rough draft in Latin, autograph, AAWO, AB, D. 7, f. 25v (b.p.)

Prints:
1CEID 1/1 No. 21, p. 194-195 (in extenso; English register)

 

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Salutem Señora Isabella,

Per hos annos post discessum m[eum] ex Spain (Hispania)⌊HyspaniaSpain (Hispania)⌋ plures a te habui litteras[1], quibus interdum, quamdiu meae vid[e]baris morem gerere voluntati, respondi, cum autem aliud me<di>t[a]baris, exigens a me, qui nihil tibi debeo, ducentos praesen[ti] pecunia ducatos, respondere distuli. Contendebas enim Juana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌊hoc, q[uod] meum esseJuana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌋ asseverabas, ut a te emerem. Idipsum non postulass[es] a me, si meum fuisset, quis enim hoc, quod suum est, emit? Quandoquidem scis, cum quo in Seville (Sevilla, Hispalis, Sivillia), city in southwestern Spain, Andalusia, on the Guadalquivir river⌊Hispali se[u] SiviliaSeville (Sevilla, Hispalis, Sivillia), city in southwestern Spain, Andalusia, on the Guadalquivir river⌋ prope hortum inclusa commiscebaris: illi, quod suum est, erat mittendum – ego , quod alterius est, eo in casu emere non soleo. Quod tibi Juana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌊filiaeque tuaeJuana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌋ aliquamdiu bene feci, humanitatis meae fuit, non debiti. Quod bene facere destiti, tuae ads[cri]be temeritati, quae condiciones gratuito tibi oblatas imprudenter reiecisti. Ne tamen Juana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌊filia tuaJuana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌋ iam, ut reor, fere adulta sibi et meo nomini fiat dedeco[ri], hoc spiritualis et putativi patris in te et illam, si boni consul[u]eris, praestabo propter Deum beneficii, ut illam dominus Heinrich Ehinger (Enrrico Eynger) (†1537)⌊Henricus EhingerHeinrich Ehinger (Enrrico Eynger) (†1537)⌋, cui ob id scripsi, ad se recipiat, illique, quousque commode ad me perferri possit, de omnibus meis impensis provideat. Tibi vero singulis annis, quamdiu sum in vivis, viginti ducatos per The Fuggers German family of merchants and bankers that dominated European business during the 15th and 16th centuries⌊FuggarosThe Fuggers German family of merchants and bankers that dominated European business during the 15th and 16th centuries⌋, non ex debito vel merito, verum ex Christiana pietate, ut vitam Deo tandem placentem relicta priore instituas, sum daturus. In tuo erit arbitrio, si hanc meam benignitatem suscipere velis. Vale, aliudque cum Juana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌊filia tuaJuana Dantisca (*1527 – †1601), daughter of Ioannes Dantiscus and Isabel Delgada; wife of Diego Gracián de Alderete (SKOLIMOWSKA 2004, p. 52; LLAMAS 1995; LLAMAS 1999; LLAMAS 2001; LLAMAS, SKOLIMOWSKA; MELGAR, 37, ...)⌋ a me non spera.

Datae 16 Martii 1537.

Sigillum et manum nosti.

[1 ] Dantiscus left Spain for good in 1529. The editor knows of 9 letters from Isabel Delgada to Dantiscus from the years 1529-1537 that he could have received before March 16, 1537, but the latest of these is dated August 17, 1531. These letters contain requests for financial assistance and suggestions that the family come together again, but in none of them does Isabel Delgada propose entrusting her daughter to Dantiscus. Clearly, Dantiscus is referring here to letters unknown to us from the years 1531-37