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

1527

tiam omnium commendare dignetur et optime valeat unacum domino Thoma5 et omni- io bus suis et nostris.

Ex Strigonio, 22. Martii 1527.

Vestrae Magnificentiae

servitor deditissimus Stephanus Brodericus

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István Brodarics to Francesco Marsupino1 Esztergom, 22 March 1527

Manuscript used: HHStA, Ung. Akt. Fasc. 3. Konv. C, fol. 147.

I. It has been a long time since he received a letter from Marsupino, he asks Marsupino to write to him when he can. - 2. Squaquara. who is delivering the letter, will inform hint about the situation in Hungary. - 3. Marsupino is requested to recommend him to Cardinal Salviati, Bishop of Capua. Niccolo Ridol/i. Cardinal Campeggio. Jacopo Sadoleto. and datarius Firmano.

Reverende Domine et Frater Carissime. Salutem et commendationem.

[1.] lam diu est, quod nullas habere possum a Vestra Dominatione litteras. Rogo, ut data occasione et facultate mittendi scribat.

Nostrae res, quomodo se habent, intelliget ab hoc domino Squaquara fratre nostro 5 communi.2

[3.] Rogo, velit me omnibus commendare praesertim dominis Salviati,3 Rhodulphi,4 Capuano5 et Campeio6 ac Sadoleto7 et domino datario, domino Firmano.8 Et optime valeat.

Ex Strigonio, 22. Martii 1527. io Vestrae Reverende Dominationis

servitor et frater Stephanus Brodericus Sirmiensis

5 Perhaps a reference to Cardinal Tommaso Cajetan De Vio, former papal legate who arrived in Hungary with Baron Bnrgio in late 1523 commissioned by Hadrian VI.

1 Canon of Esztergom Francesco Marsupino was a fellow envoy of Brodarics in Rome.- On Squaquara see the notes for the previous letter.

3 Cardinal Giovanni Salviati.

4 Niccoló Ridolfi (1501-1550) Cardinal, Archbishop of Florence.

5 Nikolaus von Schönberg (1472-1537), Bishop of Capua.

6 Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio, former papal legate in Hungary.

7 Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), prominent Humanist, poet and theologian, papal secretary. Bishop of Carpentras (France) between 1517-1544, Cardinal from 1536.

* I have found no further data on the mentioned datarius.

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