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Letter #5769

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

English register:

Valdés didn’t reply sooner because he was very busy, and didn’t have any news for Dantiscus, either. He reproaches him for his impatience and suspiciousness. He explains that his business have been delayed due to the emperor’s illness; the emperor was forced to neglect even his own affairs. He assures Dantiscus of his friendly feelings. He likes the portrait (simulacrum), therefore he will send another so that Dantiscus can have it corrected to look like the first one. He passes on master Granvelle’s request that Dantiscus send the painter to him tomorrow at five in the morning.




Manuscript sources:
1register with excerpt in Latin, English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.9
2lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 9

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8247 (TK 9), f. 195

Prints:
1BOEHMER 1899 p. 406-407 (in extenso)
2DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 173, p. 104 (in extenso)
3VALDÉS 1996 Cartas y documentos, No. 99, p. 257 (in extenso)
4CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 62) p. 267-268 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Salutem.

Non rescripsi hodie, quod essem occupatissimus et nihil praeterea, quod rescriberem, erat, nisi tuam istam impatientiam et suspiciones obiurgarem. Quasi nescias, quonam pacto negotia apud nos conficiantur aut quasi non id ex me plus millies audieris, ita te crucias et parvam moram sustinere non potes. Vides caesarem negotia sua privata negligere, quod aversa valetudine gravatus his vacare non potest, et tu vis, ut tuis tantum incumbat. Si videres aliquod aliud negotium confectum et tuum negligi, posses tunc nobiscum tuo iure expostulare, sed cum plane videas nihil hic prorsus cum caesare absolvi posse, cur non patienter exspectabis, dum aut caesar ab eo morbo levatus negotiis vacare possit aut alio pacto ea confici iubeat? Ego certe, ut ingenue fatear, numquam credidissem te adeo impatientem et a ratione alienum, ut haec non perpenderes. Ignosce, quaeso, quod libere adeo tecum agam. Nosti, quonam haec animo fiant.

Simulacrum placet et aliud ad te mittam, ut ad eum modum corrigi facias. Dominus Granvella rogat te plurimum, ut pictorem ad eum mittas cras mane hora quinta.

Vale.

Tuus Valdesius