CIDT&C Corpus of Ioannes Dantiscus' Texts & Correspondence

Letter #973

Maciej DRZEWICKI to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Łowicz, 1533-07-06

received 1533-07-27

Manuscript sources:

1	fair copy in Latin, autograph, address in secretary's hand, BCz, 249, p. 137-138

Auxiliary sources:

1	register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8247 (TK 9), f. 314

Prints:

1	AT 15 No. 346, p. 474-475 (in extenso; Polish register)

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BCz, 249, p. 138

Reverendissimo in Christo patri et domino Ioannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Johannes Flachsbinder) (*1485 – †1548), eminent diplomat and humanist in the service of the Jagiellons, neo-Latin poet; 1530-1537 Bishop of Kulm; 1537-1548 Bishop of Ermland⌊IoanniIoannes Dantiscus (Johannes von Höfen, Ioannes de Curiis, Jan Dantyszek, Johannes Flachsbinder) (*1485 – †1548), eminent diplomat and humanist in the service of the Jagiellons, neo-Latin poet; 1530-1537 Bishop of Kulm; 1537-1548 Bishop of Ermland⌋ Dei gratia episcopo Culmensi, domino fautori et paper damaged⌈[fautori et]fautori et paper damaged⌉ amico nobis in Christo paper damaged⌈[Christo]Christo paper damaged⌉ carissimo et honorando

BCz, 249, p. 137

Reverendissime in Christo pater et domine, amice et fautor in Christo carissime et honorande.

Sui commendatione praemissa, sanitatis integritatem felicesque successus Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi a domino Deo precamur, eandem praesentibus visemus salutamusque et vetustae benevolentiae tenorem offerimus. Cui sit ius optimum, nostra benevolentia ex arbitrio utendi.

At hoc non probamus, quod Vestra Reverendissima Dominatio in quiete et otio exsistens, tamquam nostri oblita, nobis nihil scribit, quae fortassis excusabit inopiam materiae scribendae ob eam rem, quod se ab his negotiis, quae argumenta scribendi suggerebant, separavit. Viro tamen docto et multarum rerum experientia exercitato talis excusatio non videtur convenire ideoque Vestra Reverendissima Dominatio, cuius litterae nobis sunt semper gratissimae iocundissimaeque, deinceps nos non privet ea voluptate, quam litterae eiusdem nobis afferre cumulatim solent et scribat frequentius, quia quod scribat, semper eius prudentiae accidet. Nepos noster profectus est in Italiam, ut studia repetat, non improbo, quod acquisitis vitae necessariis illuc se contulerit cum sacrae Maiestatis plena gratia. Si enim illic proficiet, de facili hic, Domino Deo volente, statum honestum habebit. Qui quidem transeundo Viennae apud dominum Sigmund von Herberstein (*1486 – †1566), diplomat in the service of Emperor Maximilian I, Charles V, and Roman King Ferdinand I, writer and historian. In 1517 sent to Poland to conduct the marriage between King Sigismund I Jagiellon and Duchess Bona Sforza d'Aragona, and to Moscow to arrange a truce between the Grand Duchy of Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 1515 member of the Council of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1515-1553 carried out many diplomatic missions (in 1517 and 1526 he was twice an imperial envoy at the Muscovy court)⌊Sigismundum ErberstaynSigmund von Herberstein (*1486 – †1566), diplomat in the service of Emperor Maximilian I, Charles V, and Roman King Ferdinand I, writer and historian. In 1517 sent to Poland to conduct the marriage between King Sigismund I Jagiellon and Duchess Bona Sforza d'Aragona, and to Moscow to arrange a truce between the Grand Duchy of Muscovy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 1515 member of the Council of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1515-1553 carried out many diplomatic missions (in 1517 and 1526 he was twice an imperial envoy at the Muscovy court)⌋ fuit, ab illoque honoratus et serenissimo Romanorum regi atque reverendissimo domino cardinali Tridentino praesentatus. Et quoniam nova, quae Vestrae Reverendissimae Dominationi scribamus, non habemus, participem tamen eorum Vestram Dominationem facimus, quae nobis a domino Sigismundo scripta sunt. Hic tamen pro certo habetur, quod opera Laski Mori Laczslaw a sua arce Palotha sit eiectus eademque ita exutus, ut vix suam personam salvaverit et ad asilum serenissimi Romanorum regis periculum effugerit. Iste enim fuit neutralis et neutri parti parens, crudelia in subditos partis utriusque exercuit. Dives vero erat et 28 septimanis obsessus, tandem victus. Sed opes Turci, qui eum expugnabant, rapuerunt, ex quibus parva, ut dicitur, sors Lasky data est. Vestra Reverendissima Dominatio nos amet, quam nos redamabimus.

Ex Łowicz, town in central Poland, Masovia, since 14th century residence of primates of Poland, archbishops of Gniezno⌊LowiczŁowicz, town in central Poland, Masovia, since 14th century residence of primates of Poland, archbishops of Gniezno⌋, 6 iulii 1533.