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Letter #401

Bona Sforza to Ioannes DANTISCUS
Radom, 1528-03-02
            received Madrid, [1528]-09-09

Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, in secretary's hand, author's signature, BCz, 3465, p. 93-94
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 41 (TN), No. 52, p. 221-222
3copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 284, No. 18, p. 40-41

Auxiliary sources:
1register in Polish, 20th-century, B. PAU-PAN, 8246 (TK 8), f. 12

Prints:
1AT 10 No. 106, p. 116-117 (in extenso)

 

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Magnifice et spectabilis, sincere nobis dilecte.

Ubi nuntiatum est nobis de restitutione Bari, castle and city in southern Italy, capital of Duchy of Bariarcis BarensisBari, castle and city in southern Italy, capital of Duchy of Bari, pro qua tam diu elaboratum est, illico de Tuae Strenuitatis revocatione cogitavimus et quia Strenuitas Tua pluries nobis per litteras suas consuluit, ut aliquem nostro nomine agentem in curia fovere deberemus, cui negotia ducatus nostri Barensis tuto committi possint, delegimus hunc venerabilem Jan Lewicki (†1555), before 1522 sollicitator for Primate Jan Łaski's affairs in Rome, 1522 Latin secretary to Queen Bona Sforza; ca. 1524 Cantor in Płock; 1535 superintendent of Płock cathedral; 1535 presented to the parish in Biała and to the canonry of St. Michael's collegiate church in Płock; 1538 Commendatory Abbot of the monastery of Canons Regular of the Lateran in Czerwińsk; Queen's envoy to Charles V of Habsburg (POCIECHA 2, p. 96-97)Ioannem LeviciumJan Lewicki (†1555), before 1522 sollicitator for Primate Jan Łaski's affairs in Rome, 1522 Latin secretary to Queen Bona Sforza; ca. 1524 Cantor in Płock; 1535 superintendent of Płock cathedral; 1535 presented to the parish in Biała and to the canonry of St. Michael's collegiate church in Płock; 1538 Commendatory Abbot of the monastery of Canons Regular of the Lateran in Czerwińsk; Queen's envoy to Charles V of Habsburg (POCIECHA 2, p. 96-97), cantorem Plocensem et scribam nostrum grate dilectum, qui ad nostrum beneplacitum apud sacratissimam caesaream et catholicam maiestatem agentis nostro nomine locum sustineat. Illi ergo Strenuitas Tua, quid hactenus actum sit in curia de rebus nostris, quid sperandum sit et curiae mores affatim enodare non gravetur.

Dabit insuper eidem instructiones, per quas edoceatur, quomodo in hac curia se gerere debeat, quo nostrum servetur decorum et negoti[a] nostra non periclitentur. Strenuitas Tua iam bene callet omnium officialium mores et ad quos in necessitatibus confugiendum sit; hortamur igit[ur] Strenuitatem Tuam: velit illum sic instruere, ut confidimus in Tuae Strenuitatis pr[u]dentia. De solutione Adohae si aliquid boni ante Tuae Strenuitatis exitu[m] concludi posset, satis bene consultum rebus nostris putaremus, sin minus, aequo animo ferendum est, quicquid sacra maiestas caesarea super hoc mandare dignabitur; nam de iure contendere nolumus et gratia ab invitis extorqueri non potest. Reliqua commisimus eidem Ioanni Levicio oretenus referre cum Strenuitate Tua, quam sospiter et feliciter ad nos redire optamus.

Ad mandatum serenissimae maiestatis reginalis proprium

Bona regina scripsit