Letter #5751
Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS[Madrid], [1528-08-19 — 1528-08-31]
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On the advice of his friends Valdés intends to send Erasmus the “shameless Franciscan booklet” [Luis Carvajal, Apologia vitae monasticae diluens nugas Erasmi, Salamanca, 1528], so he asks Dantiscus to lend him a copy because he has none at this time. The package will be delivered to Erasmus by the messenger who brought Erasmus’ letter to Valdés dated April 24 [1528, a letter not recorded by Allen]. Valdés regrets he has no time to meet with Dantiscus because he would like to tell him about the campaign of the “papists” in connection with his “Roman dialogue.”
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Salutem.
Videtur omnino amicis omnibus impudentem illum libellum Franciscanum mittendum esse ad Erasmum. Quem existimant mecum expostulaturum, si minus mitterem. Habeo nuntium, qui litteras ab eo attulit 8 Calendas Maii datas quique tuto meas se missurum pollicetur. Libellum praeter eum, quem penes te habes, nactus sum nullum, quare, si tibi usui non est, rogo, ut ad me mittas. Dabitur a me opera, ut quam primum alios habeamus. Si per otium liceret, venirem ad te, habeo enim papistarum tragoediam in meum dialogum Romanensem, sed non licet. Ergo vale.
Tuus Valdesius