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Letter #1774

[Ioannes DANTISCUS] to Luis NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA
Löbau (Lubawa), 1537-11-16

English register: Dantiscus is replying to Vaca’s letter, which brought back memories of the times of their friendship in Spain in the service of (imperial) Chancellor Mercurino Gattinara. Dantiscus congratulates Vaca on his transfer from the Canary Islands to the wealthier bishopric of Palencia, and informs him of his own transfer to the Warmia bishopric. He asks him to let the emperor know that he is ready to serve him. With respect to Vaca’s recommendation of Diego Gracián de Alderete as a son-in-law, he replies that he will show Gracián his favor at the proper moment, although the marriage was agreed upon against the will of the father, who wanted to bring his daughter to live with him and find a husband for her here.


Manuscript sources:
1rough draft in Latin, autograph, BCz, 244, p. 300 (b.p.)

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8248 (TK 10), f. 644

Prints:
1CEID 1/1 No. 73, p. 326-328 (in extenso; English register)

 

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Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et Illustri Domino, domino Ludovico Vaca, episcopo Palentino comitique Perniae, amico et fratri carissimo ac honorando

Reverendissime in Christo Pater, Illustris Domine, frater et amice carissime et honorande. Salutem omnisque accessionem felicitatis Dominationi Vestrae Reverendissimae precor ex animo

et quas possum gratias habeo, quod post tot curricula intervallaque temporum et locorum familiaritatis inter nos apud vere magnum illum olim cancellarium [Mercurinum] Gattinarium, cuius animae Deus misereatur, amicissime contra[c]tae in suis ad me litteris ex Valle Oleti XXII Iulii praeteriti datis amantissime meminerit. Quibus me totum fere mente rursus in Hispanias rapuit atque quam iucunde suaviterque inibi tot annis cum Dominatione Vestra Reverendissima cumque aliis plurimis meis amicis vixerim, refricuit ac in memoriam mihi reduxit. Fuitque mihi apprime gratum, quod ex Canaria illa fortunata insula, quae a canibus nomen habet, ad homines feliciores pinguioremque episcopatum Palenciam meritis et virtutibus promoventibus a sacratissima caesarea et catholica maiestate Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima sit translata. Qua in re quantum possum impensius Dominationi Vestrae Reverendissimae congratulor et sacratissimae caesareae et catholicae maiestati, quod meritorum multarumque bonarum animi corporisque dotium Dominationis Vestrae Reverendissimae dignam rationem habuerit, gratias quoad eius a me fieri potest, habeo immortales, eiusque maiestati per oportunitatem aliquando, quantuscumque hic s[um] cum facultatibus meis et inserviendi propensatione, a Dominatione Vestra Reverendissima commendari peto. Debeo enim non parum eius maiestati gratiarum ob summam clementiam, q[ua] me per ea tempora a serenissimo rege meo Poloniae oratorem est prosecuta, tum etiam, quod auspicia felicitatis meae in aula eius maiestatis mihi creverint. Unde iis diebus factum est, quod ex hoc meo Culmensi episcopatu ad digniorem longeque abundantiorem, quemadmodum Dominatio Vestra Reverendissima, sim postulatus, in proximoque habita Sedis Apostolicae confirmatione, pro qua Romae nunc tractatur, ad Varmiensem, inquam, episcopatum sum transferendus. Ceterum, quomodo ad commendationem Dominationis Vestrae Reverendissimae Graciano nostro afficiar, licet praeter voluntatem meam matrimonium hoc confectum sit, quandoquidem et hic vidissem illam libenter, neque sponsus defuisset, ipse Dominationi Vestrae Reverendissimae declarabit. Cumque iam infectum esse nequeat, utcumque res habet, benevolentiam tamen meam suo tempore experiet[ur], cognoscetque et ponderis et momenti habuisse apud me plurimum intercessionem Dominationis Vestrae Reverendissimae, quam Christus Iesus dominus noster quam diutissime sospitet prosperetque in omnibus.

Datae in Pruss[iae] Ducatu serenissimo Poloniae regi subiecto, ex castro meo Lubaviensi, XVI Novembris MDXXXVII.