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

1530

soluto,5 quos si rex Bohemiae serenissimus superare confidit, vel eis posse resistere, in veritate maiestas eius probe fallitur. Potest quidem fortasse, si nondum his malis edoctus et satiatus est, inferre damnum aliquid huic miserae patriae, sed hoc nil aliud erit, nisi provocare rursus contra se hunc potentissimum principem. O, quantum hoc quoque 25 spe sua frustrabitur, quasi nos animos Christianorum principum non habeamus exploratos! Nullum igitur remedium, si tamen est aliquod, nisi quod iam saepe frustra per Vestras Dominationes fuit tentatum, ad quod si rex Bohemiae non accesserit, nullum dubium est ruitura brevi eius omnia regna et dominia.6

Haec est mea de tota ista re firmissima sententia, quam volui Dominationibus Vestris 30 explicare, quae re ipsa experientur ista fore verissima. Si quid ergo cum serenissimo rege suo,7 immo nostro volunt pro quiete et salute publica facere, tempus est, mea in hoc et domini mei, reverendissimi Colocensis8 opera Christianitati non deerit, qui nunc quoque hac potissimum de causa sum hic inter mille incommoda. Et super iis a Vestris Dominationibus exposco responsum, quod me absente9 mittatur ad dominum Colocensem.

35 Reverendissime et Illustrissime Domini, Dominationes Vestrae boni consulant, quod haec sunt aliena manu scriptae, occupationes fuerunt in causa.

Datum Budae, 9. Novembris

Vestrarum Dominationum Reverendissimae et Illustrissimae

servitor deditissimus

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István Brodarics to Piotr Tomicki and Krzysztof Szydlowiecki Venice, 31 January 1530

Manuscript used: BN T. 11. fol. 89rJ Published: Acta Tomiciana XII. 35-36.

/. He arrived in Venice on 6 January, quite ill, 55 days after leaving Buda. - 2. Venice made deals with the Pope, the Emperor, Ferdinand, and Prince of Milan, still they can be on friendly terms with the opponents of these. The Prince of Milan gets 300.000 ducats, the Pope and the Emperor get 100.000 each, and Venice gives back the occupied towns. Issues of the Duke of Ferrara regarding Modena, Reggio, and Florence are

5 Essentially Brodarics gives a very accurate list of the factors that made the Turkish army surpass European armies of the early I6lh century in strategy, tactics, and organisation. More on this: ÁGOSTON Gábor. Az európai hadügyi forradalom és a: oszmánok, Történelmi Szemle, 1994, 465-485.

6 The Polish court tried to mediate between Ferdinand and Szapolyai already during the talks in Olo- mouc in early June, 1527. They tried to find a compromise in the conflict of the two counter-kings. However, since neither party wanted to give up the Hungarian throne under any conditions, the talks proved fruitless.

7 King of Poland Sigismund I.

s Archbishop of Kalocsa Ferenc Frangepán.

9 Brodarics left for France via Italy three days later, on 12 November.

Another manuscript: BJ 6552 fol. 99-100; BCzart TN 44. fol. 59-60.

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