Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)

1525

faciat me certiorem. Litterae Vestrae Maiestatis etiam si interim discederem per collegam 45 meum, dominum Franciscum Marsupinum, qui hic erit, vel etiam per reverendissimum dominum cardinalem Sanctorum Quattuor fideliter ad me mittentur.

Me et servitia mea in gratiam Vestrae Maiestatis rursus humillime commendo. Romae 17. Maii 1525.

Eiusdem Vestrae Sacratissimae Maiestatis

5o minimus servulus

Stephanus Brodericus orator

On the outer side: Sacratissimae regiae maiestati Poloniae, magno duci Lithvaniae, Rwssiae, Prussiae etc. domino ac heredi, domino meo clementissimo.

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István Brodarics to Giovanni Salviati Rome, 20 May 1525

Manuscript used: ASF, Carte Strozziane, Serie I., Filza 157., fol. 183r-v, 185v.

/. He had no time to write a letter since he has arrived to Rome; on the other hand, he hasn 'I received any news from Hungary. - 2. King of Poland made peace with the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order; more detail in the attached document. - 3. He hopes that Salviati s mission for peace is on the right track. The Pope ordered Brodarics to join him for the time of the talks. - 3. Pietro Antoni Berri of Parma, envoy of Louis // to Salviati, has arrived in Rome. He asks Salviati to arrange a smaller benefice for Berri in his birthplace.

Reverendissime Domine, Domine Colendissime. Servitutis commendationem.

[1.] In isto primo meo in Urbem adventu' fui adeo occupatus, ut nihil potuerim in hanc horam ad Vestram Reverendissimam Dominationem scribere. Etsi alioquin non erat magnopere, quod scriberem. Nihil enim ex Hungária a toto illo tempore habe- 5 mus.

[2.] Ex Polonia autem illud tantum, quod puto Vestram Reverendissimam Dominationem intellexisse serenissimum Poloniae regem1 2 cum magistro Prussiae3 perpetuam inivisse pacem illis conditionibus,4 quas ex scheda5 praesentibus inclusa intelliget.

1 Brodarics left for Rome in late February 1525. The earliest he could reach Rome was in early April.- Sigismund I.

3 Albrecht von Brandenburg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Duke of the secularised Prussian state after conversion to the Evangelical faith.

4 Albrecht von Brandenburg framed the state of the Teutonic Knights into a Lutheran secular Grand Duchy. He gave fealty to Polish King Sigismund on 10 April 1525.

5 See Statileo’s letter on 12 April 1525.

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