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

1533

doctoris,2 cum quo olim Patavii3 in studio litterario arctissima fuit mihi familiaritas.

10 Altera, quia cuperem, ut bona pars presbiterorum viveret potius ex bonis paternis, quam ut aliorum labore, praesertim sine rationabili causa saginarentur. Nollem autem, ut hoc ius quippiam in regnum Hungáriáé induceret, salvo tamen iure Verbecio: ut presbiteri bonis paternis hac ratione, quia presbiter est aliquis, ex eis excluderentur. Nam hoc iure ego quoque in Polyana,4 licet combusta, ius meum amitterem, quod dii is avertant. Sed serio rogo Dominationem Vestram, velit habere rationem huius meae pro praefato domino Marco petitionis. Dominationem Vestram feliciter valere opto. Posonio, 13. Martii 1533.

Rogo Vestram Dominationem, velit eum habere commendatum.

Servitor

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On the outer side: Magnifico domino Thomae Nadasdino consiliario regio etc., domino uti filio carissimo ac honorandissimo.

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István Brodarics to Tamás Nádasdy Buda, 28 March 1533

Manuscript used: MOL, E 185. Brodarics-levelek, fol. 67-69.1 Published: Kujáni Gábor, Brodarics István levelezése 150ft—1538. Történelmi Tár, 1908, 325—326.

In Hungarian: V. Kovács Sándor (ed.). Magvar humanisták levelei XV-XVI. század, Budapest, 1971, 585.

/. He is saving again that Nádasdy should not underrate Gritti s friendship, whose prestige is rising by the day. - 2. There will he peace either by the division of the country or without it. but Szapolyai will stay in power. - 3. He recommends llte case of his brother Mátyás Brodarics to Nádasdy; he himself cannot help his brother due to his debts but requests Nádasdy to fulfil his promise made to Brodarics in Berzence

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Patavii

2 The brother mentioned might be identical to Andreas de Veliche, about whom we know that he studied in Padua in August 1505. See Varga Imre, Magyarországi tanulók a padovai egyetemen a XV-XVI. századfordulón, Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények, 1975,215.

3 More on the significance of the slip of the pen in the letter (Bononiae-Patavii): Kasza Péter, Egy karrier hajnala. Adalékok Brodarics István tanulmányainak és családi viszonyainak kérdéséhez, Századok, 2008, 1187-1209.

4 Polyana was an estate of the Brodarics family. On its destruction see the letter by Brodarics on 20 October 1532.

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