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Letter #5784

Alfonso de VALDÉS to Ioannes DANTISCUS
[Burgos?], [shortly after 1527-10-17?]

English register:

Valdés is pleased that Dantiscus arrived without a problem and that he expressed joy at Valdés’ own safe arrival. He intended to visit Dantiscus as soon as possible but he couldn’t leave home. The chancellor [Mercurino Gattinara] is unwell but is bravely battling his illness; he got out of bed. Valdés suggests that Dantiscus come to see the chancellor, he will be very welcome.




Manuscript sources:
1copy in Latin, 18th-century, BK, 222, No. 48, p. 189 (c.p. 3)
2copy in Latin, 18th-century, BCz, 40 (TN), No. 254, p. 983 (c.p. 1)
3lost fair copy in Latin, AAWO, AB, D.130, No. 40

Auxiliary sources:
1register in English, 20th-century, CBKUL, R.III, 31, No. 302.40

Prints:
1DE VOCHT 1961 No. DE, 42, p. 32 (reference)
2CEID 2/3 (Letter No. 15) p. 164-165 (in extenso; English register; Polish register)

 

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Salutem.

Quod salvum me advenisse gaudes, debes tu quidem singulari meae erga te pietati, cum te sospitem applicuisse non minus mihi quam tibi gratum sit. Statueram quam primum venire ad te, si per otium licuisset, nondum tamen pedem domo efferre fas fuit. Mercurino Arborio di Gattinara (*1465 – †1530), humanist, jurist, trusted and influential advisor to Charles V; 1501 entered the service of the Habsburgs as legal counsel to Duchess Margaret of Austria, 1504 advisor and President of the Privy Council of Margaret of Austria, after the governoship of the Netherlands was entrusted to her, 1518 Grand Chancellor of Castile and later of Charles V as Roman Emperor, 1529 Cardinal of St. Giovanni a Porta Latina (after the death of his wife, Andreetta Avogadro) (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 12; CE, vol. 2, p. 76-80)⌊CancellariusMercurino Arborio di Gattinara (*1465 – †1530), humanist, jurist, trusted and influential advisor to Charles V; 1501 entered the service of the Habsburgs as legal counsel to Duchess Margaret of Austria, 1504 advisor and President of the Privy Council of Margaret of Austria, after the governoship of the Netherlands was entrusted to her, 1518 Grand Chancellor of Castile and later of Charles V as Roman Emperor, 1529 Cardinal of St. Giovanni a Porta Latina (after the death of his wife, Andreetta Avogadro) (DE VOCHT 1961, p. 12; CE, vol. 2, p. 76-80)⌋ laborat adversa valetudine, licet strenue reluctatur, surrexit e lecto. Quare tu ipse videto, quando poteris commodius accedere, nam ipsi tuus adventus numquam non erit gratissimus.

Vale.