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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István Brodarics to Taddeo dei Lardi'

Székesfehérvár, 5 June 1508

Manuscript used: ASM, Ambasciatori, Ungheria, Busta 3.

Published: Kujáni Gábor, Brodarics István levelezése, Történelmi Tár, 1908, 259-260.

In Hungarian: V. Kovács Sándor (cd,), Magyar humanisták levelei XV-XVI. század, Budapest, 1971, 555-556.

Brodarics gives a detailed account to Lardi of events and participants at the coronation of Louis II.

Reverendissime Domine, Patrone Colendissime.

Pro illa, qua semper Vestram Reverendissimam Dominationem unice colui, observantia nihil magis opto, nihil ferventiore desiderio cupio, quam Vestram Reverendissimam Dominationem intelligere aut iam convaluisse, aut certe in dies melius se habere.2 5 Quod, ut ita contingat, Deum Optimum Maximum precor, ut Tuam Dominationem Reverendissimam nobis cito incolumem cernere concedat.

Nova nulla habemus alia, nisi illa, quae iam puto per totum terrarum orbem divulgata: illustrissimum, immo serenissimum dominum Lodovicum (quod faustum felix totique reipublicae Christianae salutiferum sit) Dominica proxima post Ascensionem io Domini,3 bonis avibus et melioribus auspiciis coronavimus. Ea ipsa coronatio, ut paucis multa perstringam, sic acta fuit: dominus Patriarcha4 divina celebravit officia. Dominus Quinqueecclesiensis5 et Varadiensis6 astiterunt pontificalibus induti, et alii episcopi minores. Inter initia missae, infans regius flens et vagiens et ob multitudinem territus primo inungitur, post ensem strictum ac deinde pomum aureum et sceptrum 15 regale accipit. Post evangélium vero, antequam corona ei imponeretur, dominus pa- 13

13 post regius: vagi dei. 14 post primo: ensem stri dei.

1 Lodovico Taddeo dei Lardi (de Ferraria) (7-1512) Doctor of canon law. Archdean in Ung, then in Pankota. Vicar of Bishop of Eger lppolito d’Este (1498-1520) in 1498-1508, Vice-Comes of Heves County. Compare: Sugár István, Az egri püspökök története. Budapest, 1984, 206-208.

: Another letter by Giovanni Muzzarelli dated 28 May 1508, also kept in Modena says that Taddeo dei Lardi travelled to Italy to cure himself in baths. (Compare: ASM, Ambasciatori, Ungheria, Lettere di Muzzarelli)

5 4 June 1508.

4 Tamás Bakócz (14427-1521) High Chancellor, Archbishop of Esztergom, Patriarch of Constantinople.

5 György Szatmári (1457-1524): Bishop of Pécs (1505-1522), studied in Cracow; Humanist prelate, patron of arts, one of the most important patrons of Brodarics. More on Szatmári: Tótii-Szabó Pál, Szath- mári György prímás (1457-1524), Budapest, 1906; more recently: Farbaky Péter, Szatmári György, a mecénás, Budapest, 2002., and Fedeles Tamás - Sarbak Gábor - Sümegi József, Pécsi Egyházmegye története I. A középkor évszázadai (1009-1543), Pécs, 2009, 136-140.

6 Zsigmond Thurzó (around 1466-1512) Humanist prelate, studied in Padua. Secretary of György Szatmári until 1504, Bishop of Szerém from 1501, of Nyitra from 1504, of Várad from 1506. It was he who rebuilt the bishop’s palace in Nagyvárad in Renaissance style. Compare: Bunyitay Vince, A váradipüspökség története alapítása a jelenkorig. I., Nagyvárad, 1883, 354-366.

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