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Letter #5787

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1526-10-31 — 1526-12-10 or 1527-01-26 — 1527-08-23 or 1527-10-18 — 1528-12-17 or 1529-04-18 — 1529-07-27?]

English register:

Looking through Pietro Martire’s letters before publication, Valdés has noticed nonsensical information in them about the Lutheran issue and the emperor’s coronation [in Aix-la-Chapelle, 1520]. He has suggested to the publisher [oeconomus] that he shouldn’t publish them, but the man has requested that Valdés make corrections or write them anew. Based on his old texts, Valdés has written a new version of the letters and sends them to Dantiscus requesting that he edit them.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 48, p. 191 (b.p.), 200 (t.p.)
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 986

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8250 (TK 12), f. 625

Prints:
1CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 36) p. 222-223 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Salutem.

Evolventi mihi Petri Martyris epistolas, quas nuper apud me vidisti, forte fortuna eae, in quibus rem Lutheranam atque caesaris coronationem narrabat, ad manus veniunt. Quas cum ex diametro cum veritate pugnare viderem, monui nostrum oeconomum, ne huiusmodi ineptias ederet. Ille vero, existimans se Petri Martyris provocaturum manes, si tantum opus premeret, effecit apud me, ut eas ipsas epistolas vel emendarem vel novas conficerem. Ego autem, cupiens amico morem gerere, quas hic vides epistolas ex nugis meis, quas puer scripseram, decerpsi. Tu, si me amas, eas lege, relege, corrige atque e barbaris Latinas facito. Absque tuo calculo minime prodituras.

Vale.