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Letter #456

Ioannes DANTISCUS to Alfonso de VALDÉS
[Regensburg?], [ca. 1532-04-16 ?]

English register:

Dantiscus apologizes for his insistence, the reason being the troubles that torment him. He is fed up with life at the court. He asks whether Granvelle has arranged everything to do with his departure, as promised, and if not, he asks Valdés to urge him on. He invites Valdés to dinner.




Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 1596, p. 257 (t.p.)-258
2register in English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 32, No. 531

Prints:
1CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 63) p. 269-270 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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BCz, 1596, p. 257

Salutem.

Qui in taedio est, quali ego sum, non potest se non affligere. Quare, mi carissime Valdesi, non aegre feras, oro, quod tibi interdum sum molestior. Cuperem summopere scire, si quid de expeditione hinc mea, quemadmodum Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (*1484 – †1550), doctor of both canon and civil law, one of the most trusted advisors of Emperor Charles V, in 1519 entered the service of Charles V, in 1521 took part in the Habsburg-French negotiations in Calais, in 1529 in peace negotiations with the Roman Curia and the Italian states, and later, in 1538, in the conference of Nice between Charles V and Francis I; prominent official and advisor of Charles V and of Margaret of Austria in the administration of the County of Burgundy and of the Habsburg Netherlands, collaborator of Chancellor Gattinara, 1530 secretary of State for German and Netherlandish affairs and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily and Naples (he replaced Gattinara after his death in the position of Grand Chancellor, although not using the title); imperial envoy to France (several times up to 1528) (CE, vol. 3, p. 68-70; DURME 1964; ANTONY 2006)⌊dominus de GranvelaNicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (*1484 – †1550), doctor of both canon and civil law, one of the most trusted advisors of Emperor Charles V, in 1519 entered the service of Charles V, in 1521 took part in the Habsburg-French negotiations in Calais, in 1529 in peace negotiations with the Roman Curia and the Italian states, and later, in 1538, in the conference of Nice between Charles V and Francis I; prominent official and advisor of Charles V and of Margaret of Austria in the administration of the County of Burgundy and of the Habsburg Netherlands, collaborator of Chancellor Gattinara, 1530 secretary of State for German and Netherlandish affairs and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily and Naples (he replaced Gattinara after his death in the position of Grand Chancellor, although not using the title); imperial envoy to France (several times up to 1528) (CE, vol. 3, p. 68-70; DURME 1964; ANTONY 2006)⌋ mihi promisit, transactum sit. Ea in re ut me certiorem reddas, quaeso. Quod si adhuc nihil actum, et obsecro et obtestor, ut quantum potes, urgeas et calcar addas, quo semel me ex his aulicis tricis extricare possim. Quod si praeter tuas occupationes quiveris efficere, ut mecum prandeas, rem mihi facturus es apprime gratam.

Vale.