Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1525
48 Bona Sforza1 to István Brodarics Cracow, 5 July 1525 Manuscript wm/: BCzart TN 37. fol. 355.2 Published: Acta Tomiciana VII. 299. Brodarics has been very industrious in the matter o f the Duchy of Bari. Bona Sforza is asking him to help their envoy Johannes Dan fiscus in every possible way. Bona, Dei gratia regina Poloniae, magna dux Lithvaniae, Russiae, Prussiaeque etc. domina. Reverende Pater, Domine sincere nobis Dilecte. Scimus nos Paternitatem Tuam negotiis nostris Barensibus, utpote et iustissimis et 5 aequissimis esse ex corde affectum, eo maxime, quod id ab utraque maiestate sua in commissis habeat, ut nomine illarum maiestatum hoc idem apud caesaream et catholicam maiestatem efficaciter promovere[t]. Nunc cupimus, et si par sit, rogamus, assistet ibi oratori nostro, magnifico loanni Dantisco,3 et in quibus auxilium suum postulaverit, ita illud impendere velit, quemad- lo modum rebus nostris prodesse noverit. Nos enim praefato oratori nostro ad Tuam Paternitatem singulare iussimus habere refugium, nam illam scimus ibidem non parvi valere et reputari. Nos, quando poterimus Paternitati Tuae omni nostra gratitudine id rependere curabimus, quam optime valere cupimus. Datum Cracoviae die quinta Iulii millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo quinto, is Ea commissione sacrae reginalis maiestatis propria 7 promoveret conexi ex: promovere. AT: promoveret. 14 dic quinta Iulii: V. iulii AT 8 assistet ibi: assistat AT 15 Ha ... propria om. AT 9 auxilium suum: suum auxilium AT 1 Bona Sforza (1494-1557). daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza and Isabella of Aragon. Wife of Polish King Sigismund from 1517. More on her life: Wladistaw Pociuciia, Królowa Bona (N94-1557) I-IV, Poznan, 1949-1958.- The manuscript in the Naruszewicz Collection served as the basis of publication. Since this is a replica from the 18"' century. I gave variants of the text published in volume VII of Acta Tomiciana in the critical apparatus, because that one is based on a codex from Kórnik from the 16th or 17lUcentury. According to Wladistaw Pociecha (Wladislaw Pocihcha, Królowa Bona ... 545.), this letter has a replica in the Czarto- ryski Library, on page 62 of manuscript 3645. However, in the catalogue of manuscripts in the Czartoryski Library the item with this number contains accounts of a Conventual Franciscan monastery from the I8'h century. •' Bona Sforza also asked Dantiscus in his letter dated 5 July to make moves with the Emperor in connection to the issue of the Duchy of Bari, and to utilise Brodarics’ help. Compare: AT VII. 297-298. 121
