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Letter #5779

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
[Augsburg?], [1530-10 — 1530-11-22?]

English register:

Valdés forgot to inform Dantiscus sooner that he had been invited to dinner at Scipio’s [di Somma’s?] yesterday and today. He went unwillingly but was afraid to offend Scipio with a refusal. He will do what he can as regards the Canonitildum. Valdés doesn’t know what Lewicki(?, cf. footnote No. 3) can expect, he suspects the emperor has forgotten about his matter. Valdés encloses the decrees Dantiscus requested.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 47, p. 185 (b.p.)
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 977 (c.p.1)
3copy in Latin, 19th-century, BK, 222, not numbered, f. [1r (b.p.) after p. 185]
4register with excerpt in Latin, English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.15
5lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 15

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8246 (TK 8), f. 85

Prints:
1CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 46) p. 240-241 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Salutem.

Et heri et hodie oblitus sum tibi significare probably Scipione di Somma (*ca.1490 – †1553), professor at the Naples University; 1525 general auditor of Queen Bona Sforza in Bari; at least to 1540 governor of Bari; councillor of Emperor Charles V (POCIECHA 2, p. 257; POCIECHA 4, p. 285; SIGISMONDO 1788, p. 104)⌊Scipionemprobably Scipione di Somma (*ca.1490 – †1553), professor at the Naples University; 1525 general auditor of Queen Bona Sforza in Bari; at least to 1540 governor of Bari; councillor of Emperor Charles V (POCIECHA 2, p. 257; POCIECHA 4, p. 285; SIGISMONDO 1788, p. 104)⌋ nostrum me ad prandium vocasse. Ego, ut ingenue fatear, neque securo animo neque libenter veni, sed nolui recusare, ne crederet me illi parum amicum, sed de his alias. Ceterum in re Canonitildum faciam, quod potero, sed scis, quam simus diligentes in expediendis negotiis. Quid a Charles V of Habsburg (*1500 – †1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily, King of the Romans (1519-1530), Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation (elected 1519, crowned 1530, abdicated 1556); son of Philip I the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile⌊caesareCharles V of Habsburg (*1500 – †1558), ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain as Charles I (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily, King of the Romans (1519-1530), Holy Roman Emperor of the German Nation (elected 1519, crowned 1530, abdicated 1556); son of Philip I the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile⌋ sperare debeat Levitius[1], nescio, et fortassis non erit memor illius.

Decretationes, quas petis, ad te mittam et vale.

[1 ] probably Jan Lewicki (†1555), before 1522 sollicitator for Primate Jan Łaski's affairs in Rome, 1522 Latin secretary to Queen Bona Sforza; ca. 1524 Cantor in Płock; 1535 superintendent of Płock cathedral; 1535 presented to the parish in Biała and to the canonry of St. Michael's collegiate church in Płock; 1538 Commendatory Abbot of the monastery of Canons Regular of the Lateran in Czerwińsk; Queen's envoy to Charles V of Habsburg (POCIECHA 2, p. 96-97)⌊Levitiusprobably Jan Lewicki (†1555), before 1522 sollicitator for Primate Jan Łaski's affairs in Rome, 1522 Latin secretary to Queen Bona Sforza; ca. 1524 Cantor in Płock; 1535 superintendent of Płock cathedral; 1535 presented to the parish in Biała and to the canonry of St. Michael's collegiate church in Płock; 1538 Commendatory Abbot of the monastery of Canons Regular of the Lateran in Czerwińsk; Queen's envoy to Charles V of Habsburg (POCIECHA 2, p. 96-97)⌋ or Lieven Algoet (Livinus Panagathus, Livinus Omnibonus, Levinus Goethals) (†1547), Dutch humanist, poet and cartographer, author of an account of the Augsburg Diet (1530), in 1519 entered the service of Erasmus of Rotterdam, in 1534 became a preceptor of young courtiers at the court of Mary of Hungary (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 53, 371; CE, vol. 1, p. 35-36)⌊LivinusLieven Algoet (Livinus Panagathus, Livinus Omnibonus, Levinus Goethals) (†1547), Dutch humanist, poet and cartographer, author of an account of the Augsburg Diet (1530), in 1519 entered the service of Erasmus of Rotterdam, in 1534 became a preceptor of young courtiers at the court of Mary of Hungary (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 53, 371; CE, vol. 1, p. 35-36)⌋