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

1531

in Christianis principibus ad aliquid bonum deducendis,4 sed frustra fuerunt non solum mei, qui nihil potius sum, quam aliquis, sed bonorum omnium labores. Quid aliquid etiam est imposterum exspectandum in tanta principum Christianorum diversitate? Ne quid 20 aliud dicam, Dominatio Vestra Magnifica pro sua prudentia haec omnia melius intelligit, quam a me scribi possint. Amplectamur pacem, dum offertur, ne longa ad deteriora veniatur, quam quae processerunt. Servitia mea Vestrae Magnificentiae commendo.

Ex Buda 19. lanuarii 1531.

Cetera ex hoc domino meo domino Lasky.5

25 Servitor deditissimus

Stephanus Brodericus Sirmiensis alias regni Hungáriáé cancellarius

On the buck sitié: Exemplum Broderici Sirmiensis litterarum

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István Brodarics to Camillo Orsini1 Buda, 24 January 1531

Manuscript used: ASG, ESTK, föl. 70.1 2

I. He spoke to King John and Gritti immediately after his return home. They were pleased to hear that Orsini enters the service of King John. His conditions, as he will see from the King's letter, have been accepted. Brodarics also sends King John s letter to the French King to Orsini. - 2. Matthia Marigliano will inform Orsini about the siege of Buda that King John endured. - 3. Gritti, who travelled to Constantinople on the 12'h or 13th of this month, is the second person after the King now. He will send money; he would like Orsini to come here in accordance with the information sent from Constantinople.

Illustris et Magnifice Domine, Domine mihi Honorandissime. Servitiorum meorum commendationem.

[1.] Io pariato subito como veni qua cum la Maesta dei Re3 mio Serenissimo et

3 jiost pariato dei como

4 Brodarics, as an envoy to Rome in 1522-25, attempted to secure financial and military support for Hungary’s fight against the Turks. His efforts were essentially futile.

5 We know from Laski’s letter to Roggendorf on 8 January that they were to meet in Visegrád on 20 January in order to begin the peace talks. See HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc.17. Konv. A, fol. 42.

1 Camillo Orsini (1492-1559), mercenary commander from Venice. In fact, Orsini served King John. Brodarics mentions it in his letter to Nádasdy on 21 December 1532. A credentialis for Szapolyai from January 1532, addressed to Laski and Orsini, also survived. See Hcgcdüs István, Irodalomtörténeti tarlózások az olasz könyvtárakban. Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények, 1898,478.

2 Autograph.

1 János Szapolyai.

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