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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 Peter Martyr (Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Pedro Mártir de Anglería, Petrus Martyr Anglerius) (*1457 – †1526), Italian-born historian of Spain and of the discoveries during the Age of Exploration, friend of the Great Chancellor Gattinara, tutor of young Spanish noblemen (Renaissance, p. 13-14)⌊Petri MartyrisPeter Martyr (Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Pedro Mártir de Anglería, Petrus Martyr Anglerius) (*1457 – †1526), Italian-born historian of Spain and of the discoveries during the Age of Exploration, friend of the Great Chancellor Gattinara, tutor of young Spanish noblemen (Renaissance, p. 13-14)⌋ epistolas, quas nuper apud me vidisti, forte fortuna eae, in quibus rem Lutheranam[1] atque 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⌊caesarisCharles 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⌋ coronationem[2] narrabat, ad manus veniunt. Quas cum ex diametro cum veritate pugnare viderem, monui nostrum oeconomum, ne huiusmodi ineptias ederet. Ille vero, existimans se Peter Martyr (Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Pedro Mártir de Anglería, Petrus Martyr Anglerius) (*1457 – †1526), Italian-born historian of Spain and of the discoveries during the Age of Exploration, friend of the Great Chancellor Gattinara, tutor of young Spanish noblemen (Renaissance, p. 13-14)⌊Petri MartyrisPeter Martyr (Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Pedro Mártir de Anglería, Petrus Martyr Anglerius) (*1457 – †1526), Italian-born historian of Spain and of the discoveries during the Age of Exploration, friend of the Great Chancellor Gattinara, tutor of young Spanish noblemen (Renaissance, p. 13-14)⌋ 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.

[1 ] The religious situation in Germany and especially the interrogation of Martin Luther at the assembly in Worms in April 1521 was described in cf. Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Opus epistolarum Petri Martyris Anglerii Mediolanesis, protonotarii apostolici atque a consiliis rerum Indicarum, nunc primum et natum et mediocri cura excusum, quod quidem praeter stili venustatem nostrorum quoque temporum historiae loco esse poterit, Alcalá de Henares, Miguel de Eguia, 1530 ⌊Opus epistolarum Petri Martyris Angleriicf. Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Opus epistolarum Petri Martyris Anglerii Mediolanesis, protonotarii apostolici atque a consiliis rerum Indicarum, nunc primum et natum et mediocri cura excusum, quod quidem praeter stili venustatem nostrorum quoque temporum historiae loco esse poterit, Alcalá de Henares, Miguel de Eguia, 1530 ⌋, letters No. DCLXXXIX, DCCXXIII

[2 ] The events during the coronation of Charles V as king of the Romans in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aquisgranum) in October 1520 were described in cf. Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Opus epistolarum Petri Martyris Anglerii Mediolanesis, protonotarii apostolici atque a consiliis rerum Indicarum, nunc primum et natum et mediocri cura excusum, quod quidem praeter stili venustatem nostrorum quoque temporum historiae loco esse poterit, Alcalá de Henares, Miguel de Eguia, 1530 ⌊Opus epistolarum Petri Martyris Angleriicf. Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Opus epistolarum Petri Martyris Anglerii Mediolanesis, protonotarii apostolici atque a consiliis rerum Indicarum, nunc primum et natum et mediocri cura excusum, quod quidem praeter stili venustatem nostrorum quoque temporum historiae loco esse poterit, Alcalá de Henares, Miguel de Eguia, 1530 ⌋, letter No. DCXCIX