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Letter #5755

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1528-09-01 — 1528-12-16?]

English register:

Valdés praises the epigram Dantiscus sent him as a royal gift, more precious than anything else. He regrets that the old man’s [Mercurino Gattinara’s] “importunate importunity” (importuna importunitas) prevents him from visiting his friend. He asks to be informed about what Cato Pratensis [Lodewijk van Praet] thinks of the epigram.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 47, p. 185 (c.p. 1)
2copy in Latin, 19th-century, BK, 222, not numbered, f. [1r (t.p.) after p. 185]
3copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 976
4lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 3

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8246 (TK 8), f. 37r (t.p.)
2register in English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.3

Prints:
1BOEHMER 1899 p. 397-398 (in extenso)
2DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 58, p. 37, 38 (excerpt; English register)
3VALDÉS 1996 Cartas y documentos, No. 49, p. 124 (in extenso)
4CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 25) p. 185-186 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

Text & apparatus & commentaryPlain textText & commentaryText & apparatus

 

Tam magnifica subinde munera mittis, ut nullum mehercle principem, quantumvis magnum, sciam, print 1 quocum,
ms 1 2 quorum⌈quocumprint 1 quocum,
ms 1 2 quorum⌉ de liberalitate certare non possis. Misisti epigramma, sed ita, acsi nihil mitteres, et tamen nihil est, quod maius mitti possit. Mittis ingenium, print 1 iudicium,
ms 1 iudiciu[m] hidden by binding,
ms 2 iudicium⌈iudiciumprint 1 iudicium,
ms 1 iudiciu[m] hidden by binding,
ms 2 iudicium⌉, argutias, sales, lepores, et quid non? Sed ne ego ineptus sum, qui print 1 tua,
ms 1 tu[a] hidden by binding,
ms 2 tuam⌈tuaprint 1 tua,
ms 1 tu[a] hidden by binding,
ms 2 tuam⌉ laudem, quasi meo calculo print 1 quicquam,
ms 1 quisquam,
ms 2 quidquam⌈quicquamprint 1 quicquam,
ms 1 quisquam,
ms 2 quidquam⌉ illis accedere possit?

Vale.

Postscript:

Venirem ad te, si per huius senis importunam importunitatem liceret, sed non audeo, crede mihi, print 1 domo,
ms 1 2 domi⌈domoprint 1 domo,
ms 1 2 domi⌉ pedem efferre. Iterum vale et fac, sciam, quid Cato ille Pratensis de tuo epigrammate iudicavit.