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Letter #5757

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1529-04-18 — 1529-06-20?]

English register:

Valdés informs Dantiscus that after sending off Pratensis [Lodewijk van Praet] he finally has a moment’s rest. He was very amused with the epigram about Valdés transforming into Lalemand, sent by Dantiscus through Stach(?). He received it with the letter while sitting at dinner with the chancellor [Mercurino Gattinara]. Valdés sends Dantiscus the emperor’s letter. The other letter, on the matter of Bari (or maybe to the archbishop of Bari?) hasn’t been signed yet.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 53, p. 198 (t.p.)
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 258, p. 1001
3register with excerpt in Latin, English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.27
4lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 27

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8246 (TK 8), f. 40

Prints:
1BOEHMER 1899 p. 398 (in extenso)
2DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 60, p. 42 (in extenso)
3VALDÉS 1996 Cartas y documentos, No. 53, p. 129 (in extenso)
4CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 35) p. 220-221 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

Text & apparatus & commentaryPlain textText & commentaryText & apparatus

 

Abegimus Pratensem. Iam mihi paululum respirare licet, nam his totis diebus ne print 1 respiravi,
ms 1 respiravi,
ms 2 respirari⌈respiraviprint 1 respiravi,
ms 1 respiravi,
ms 2 respirari⌉ quidem. Cum mihi epistolium simul cum epigrammate tuum reddit print 3 Stach,
print 1 2 Hach,
ms 1 2 Suares⌈Stachprint 3 Stach,
print 1 2 Hach,
ms 1 2 Suares⌉, sedebam in prandio cum cancellario. Cum epistolium lego, in quo mones, ut epigramma boni consulam, obstupui. Quasi nescires nihil me posse non boni consulere, quod ex te proficiscatur. Cum autem ad epigramma venio, vix (ita me Deus print 1 amet,
ms 1 amet,
ms 2 adiuvet⌈ametprint 1 amet,
ms 1 amet,
ms 2 adiuvet⌉) a risu temperare potui, ubi vidi me ex Valdesio Lalemantum effectum, cui os et clauditur, et reseratur print 1 offis,
ms 1 2 officiis⌈offisprint 1 offis,
ms 1 2 officiis⌉.

Vale.

Postscript:

Mitto litteras caesaris ad te, aliae autem pro negotio tuo or causa tua,
print 1 tuo,
ms 1 2 tuo⌈negotio tuonegotio tuo or causa tua,
print 1 tuo,
ms 1 2 tuo⌉ Barrensi nondum subscriptae sunt a caesare.

print 1 Iterum,
ms 1 Item,
ms 2 Iterum⌈Iterumprint 1 Iterum,
ms 1 Item,
ms 2 Iterum⌉ vale.

Tuus Valdesius