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Letter #5768

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
[Regensburg], [ca. 1532-04-16?]

English register:

Valdés asks Dantiscus to send him his portrait if it is ready, because master Granvelle wants to see it in order to decide whether to commission his own portrait from the same painter. Valdés is returning the historical work (historicum tuum Sycophantam) after reading it and asks to have back Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s little book because he wants to enclose it in a letter to Erasmus.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 54, p. 198-199
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 257, p. 999
3register with excerpt in Latin, English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.12
4lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 12

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8246 (TK 8), f. 466

Prints:
1BOEHMER 1899 p. 406 (in extenso)
2DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 171, p. 103 (in extenso)
3VALDÉS 1996 Cartas y documentos, No. 98, p. 256 (in extenso)
4CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 61) p. 265-266 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Dominus Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (*1484 – †1550), doctor of both canon and civil law, one of the most trusted advisors of Emperor Charles V, in 1519 entered the service of Charles V, in 1521 took part in the Habsburg-French negotiations in Calais, in 1529 in peace negotiations with the Roman Curia and the Italian states, and later, in 1538, in the conference of Nice between Charles V and Francis I; prominent official and advisor of Charles V and of Margaret of Austria in the administration of the County of Burgundy and of the Habsburg Netherlands, collaborator of Chancellor Gattinara, 1530 secretary of State for German and Netherlandish affairs and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily and Naples (he replaced Gattinara after his death in the position of Grand Chancellor, although not using the title); imperial envoy to France (several times up to 1528) (CE, vol. 3, p. 68-70; DURME 1964; ANTONY 2006)⌊GranvellaNicolas Perrenot de Granvelle (*1484 – †1550), doctor of both canon and civil law, one of the most trusted advisors of Emperor Charles V, in 1519 entered the service of Charles V, in 1521 took part in the Habsburg-French negotiations in Calais, in 1529 in peace negotiations with the Roman Curia and the Italian states, and later, in 1538, in the conference of Nice between Charles V and Francis I; prominent official and advisor of Charles V and of Margaret of Austria in the administration of the County of Burgundy and of the Habsburg Netherlands, collaborator of Chancellor Gattinara, 1530 secretary of State for German and Netherlandish affairs and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily and Naples (he replaced Gattinara after his death in the position of Grand Chancellor, although not using the title); imperial envoy to France (several times up to 1528) (CE, vol. 3, p. 68-70; DURME 1964; ANTONY 2006)⌋ libenter videret meum simulacrum ut, si placeret ei, per eundem probably Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Jan Mayo, Barbalonga) (*ca. 1500 – †1559), he portrayed many courtiers, among them Alfonso de Valdés in 1532; painter in service of the emperor Charles V⌊pictoremprobably Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Jan Mayo, Barbalonga) (*ca. 1500 – †1559), he portrayed many courtiers, among them Alfonso de Valdés in 1532; painter in service of the emperor Charles V⌋ suum quoque depingi faceret. Si extrema manus imposita est, fac, obsecro, ut habeamus. Ceterum historicum tuum Sycophantam perlectum ad te mitto. Tu vicissim Ginesii,
ms 1 2 Gniesii⌈Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (*1489 – †1573), Spanish humanist, theologian, philosopher, and translator of Aristotle's works into Latin; defender of the Spanish Empire's right of conquest, of colonization, and evangelization in the so-called New World, adversary of Bartolomé de las Casas in the Valladolid Controversy in 1550 (CE, vol. 3, p. 240-242)⌊GinesiiJuan Ginés de Sepúlveda (*1489 – †1573), Spanish humanist, theologian, philosopher, and translator of Aristotle's works into Latin; defender of the Spanish Empire's right of conquest, of colonization, and evangelization in the so-called New World, adversary of Bartolomé de las Casas in the Valladolid Controversy in 1550 (CE, vol. 3, p. 240-242)⌋Ginesii,
ms 1 2 Gniesii⌉ libellum[1] ad me mittito, ut eum litteris[2] meis ad Erasmus of Rotterdam (Gerrit Gerritszoon, Geert Geerts, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus) (*1466/1469 – †1536), Dutch humanist and theologian, distinguished philologist, the most famous and influential humanist of the Northern Renaissance; his works had a profound impact upon Christian theology during the first half of the sixteenth century⌊ErasmumErasmus of Rotterdam (Gerrit Gerritszoon, Geert Geerts, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus) (*1466/1469 – †1536), Dutch humanist and theologian, distinguished philologist, the most famous and influential humanist of the Northern Renaissance; his works had a profound impact upon Christian theology during the first half of the sixteenth century⌋ adiungere possim.

Vale.

[1] It seems probable that the book by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (*1489 – †1573), Spanish humanist, theologian, philosopher, and translator of Aristotle's works into Latin; defender of the Spanish Empire's right of conquest, of colonization, and evangelization in the so-called New World, adversary of Bartolomé de las Casas in the Valladolid Controversy in 1550 (CE, vol. 3, p. 240-242)⌊Juan Ginés de SepúlvedaJuan Ginés de Sepúlveda (*1489 – †1573), Spanish humanist, theologian, philosopher, and translator of Aristotle's works into Latin; defender of the Spanish Empire's right of conquest, of colonization, and evangelization in the so-called New World, adversary of Bartolomé de las Casas in the Valladolid Controversy in 1550 (CE, vol. 3, p. 240-242)⌋ that Valdés mentions and intends to send Erasmus is Antapologia pro Alberto Pio Comite Carpiensi in Erasmum Roterodamum. Antapologia was published almost simultaneously in Rome (1532-03) and Paris (1532-03-22). Erasmus’s letter to Sepúlveda dated 1532-08-16 (Allen, vol. 10, No. 2701, p. 83) suggests that Erasmus had the Paris edition of Antapologia even before the writer sent him the Roman edition which was enclosed in the letter of 1532-04-01 (Allen, vol. 10, No. 2637, p. 3-5). If we assume that the present letter was written in 1532, it is rather unlikely that Valdés planned to send Erasmus any of the many earlier works by Sepúlveda, e.g. De fato et libero arbitrio libri tres (Roma, 1527),cf. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ad Carolum V imperatorem invictissimum, ut facta cum omnibus Christianis pace, bellum suscipiat in Turcas Io(annis) Genesii Sepulvedae cohortatio, Bononia, Ioannes Baptista Phaellius, 1529 ⌊ Ad Carolum V imperatorem invictissimum, ut facta cum omnibus Cristianis pace, bellum suscipiat in Turcascf. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ad Carolum V imperatorem invictissimum, ut facta cum omnibus Christianis pace, bellum suscipiat in Turcas Io(annis) Genesii Sepulvedae cohortatio, Bononia, Ioannes Baptista Phaellius, 1529 ⌋ (Bologna, 1529), or De ritu nuptiarum et dispensatione Libri tres (Rome, 1531), as supposed Boehmer in his edition .

[2] Letter of Alfonso de Valdes to Erasmus of Rotterdam unknown.