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

1538

cum Turea. Illud optimum fuisset eum debellare. Secundo tamen loco nec hoc est malum, quod Transsilvania sit salva, nec in Moldavia facta esse dicuntur maxima damna.

10 [3.] Iam ego non habebo, quid scriberem novi, nec eas, quid a me exspectetur. Ego

autem in dies exspecto a Vestra Dominatione nova felicia de rebus maritimis.3

[4.] Ego cogor ire pro revisione bonorum fratris mei4 ad Zala. Si potero rediens constituar cum Vestra Dominatione. Quae recte valeat.

Ex Vacia 14. Octobris 1538.

15 Abero per tres septimanas circiter.

Servitor

Vaciensis subscripsit

On the outer side: Spectabili et magnifico domino comiti Alexio Thurzoni iudici curiae et locumtenenti serenissimi domini Romanorum etc. regis, domino mihi observandis- simo.

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István Brodarics to Girolamo Aleandro1 Vác, 14 October 1538

Manuscript used: ASP, Carteggio Famesiano e Borbonico Estero, busta 159., fol. 22-23. Published: VERESS Endre (ed.). Akták és levelek Erdély- és Magyarország Moldvával és Havasalfölddel való viszonyához, Budapest, 1914, 289-290.

I. He received Cardinal A leandro s letter dated 3 October gratefully and asks him to preserve his kind feelings towards him. - 2. The Sultan is rumoured to have left Moldova, where he nominated a new Voivod, but it is not known, whom. At least it is a Christian. Thanks to King John s zeal. Transylvania has been saved.

Reverendissime Domine, Domine mihi Observandissime. Post servitutis meae commendationem.

8 post quod det. ille 10 post novi det. neq-1 Reference to the military operations of the fleets of Spain, Venice, and the Papal State, members of the League. Ferdinand informed Brodarics on these operations on 8 October. In more detail on the operations, see the notes there.

4 Mátyás Brodarics. 1 2

1 Girolamo Aleandro (1480-1542), Cardinal, Papal legate in 1538-1539 in Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary. He was appointed Cardinal in March 1538. Before entering Roman service, he had produced significant scholarly work. He taught at several universities in Italy and France, and was elected Rector in Paris. He met Erasmus in 1508 in Venice, and they maintained a very good relationship for a long time, which later deteriorated due to disputes regarding the Reformation. He might have known Brodarics from the latter’s years in Padua, but it is also possible that they mat later, in the early 1520s, when Brodarics was legate in Rome.

2 This letter is lost.

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