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

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omnino ignoratur,9 nisi quod nepotem suam10 locavit in matrimonium secundo genito,11 cum maximo triumpho, cum summa laetitia. Hoc sciatis pro certo, quod Sua Sanctitas non potuit inducere imperatorem Carolum ad veram concordiam cum rege, quia imperator non vult mutare illas duras conditiones pacis factas cum rege in Cambrai.12 is Rex vero cupit Mediolanum et aliquid aliud ita, quod pax nulla erit, et nihil minus ibi est factum vel tractatum, quam contra Tuream. Brevi videbimus signa, si quid pontifex intendet facere. Certi nihil scimus, nisi quod caesar noluit aliquo modo mutare priores conditiones pacis cum rege, neque voluit suos oratores interessé, et hoc est verissimum signum nullius concordiae.

20 [2.] Rex donavit omnibus cardinalibus, qui fuerunt cum pontifice, unicuique duo

milia ducatorum in redditibus, et mille ducatos in prompta pecunia. Donavit etiam multos curiales in diversis donis. Pontifex discessit ab eo cum maxima laetitia, concordia et triumpho, exspectamus cras omnino Suam Sanctitatem hic Romae. De oratore1-’ serenissimi domini regis nihil intelligo. Multi boni et magni curiales sunt mortui in 25 itinere propter mare et mala itinera. Trivultius14 habuit episcopatum novem milia ducatorum, Gaddi15 2000, ut alii, Iovius16 habuit a rege credentiam decem milium ducatorum et unam abbatiam. Sadoletus17 est cum rege. Dominus baro Burgii18 hodie erit Romae. Thomas Guerrerius19 se commendat plurimum. Coron est munitum valde ab Hispanis.20 Tureus dicitur armare classem pro aestate futura. In Italia ubique arma 30 silent; est maxima carentia panis. Dominus Marsupinus21 est in Tibure civitate22 solatii causa exspectat pontificem et litteras a vobis cum maxima exspectatione.

30 carentia convxi ex: carcstia

9 Secrecy about the talks between the Pope and the French King is a recurring theme of the various legates’ reports sent from Marseille. So it was not only Marsupino who was poorly informed. See Ludwig von Pastor, Geschichte der Pcipste, vol. 4, Freiburg, 1956, 480.

10 Catherine de’ Medici.

11 Prince Henri of Orleans, who, after Francis I died, became King of France by the name Henry II.

12 France and Spain signed Peace of Cambrai on 5 August 1529. According to the agreement, France gave up its demands in Italy, withdrew its troops from the peninsula, and paid heavy reparations to Spain.

13 Francesco Casali.

14 Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio, a leading figure of the French party. After Sacco di Roma, he was kept in the Castel Nuovo in Naples for 18 months.

15 Cardinal Niccolö Gaddi of Florentine origin. Bishop of Fermo. He was related to the Medici.

16 Paolo Giovio, historian. Bishop of Nocera.

17 Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), noted Humanist, poet, and theologian, papal secretary. Bishop of Carpentras, France, in 1517-1544, Cardinal from 1536.

18 Baron Burgio was staying in London as a papal legate already in 1531. (See the letter by Miklós Oláh to him, on 16 October 1531, ETE II. 169-172.) He was recalled as a direct result of the excommunication of Henry VIII.

15 Thomas Guerrerius cantor of Catania, notary at the Curia in Rome.

20 Andrea Doria’s troops occupied Koron in 1532. The fortress fended off several Turkish sieges in 1533. Only Hayreddin Barbarossa could take it in the summer of 1534 after collecting a significant fleet.

21 Francesco Marsupino was active in Rome already in the 1520s as a representative of King Louis.

22 Tibur, today Tivoli. A small town a few kilometres East of Rome.

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