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

1530

still pending. Florence still fights. The Emperor is about to go to Bologna with the Pope, then to Siena and to Rome where the Emperor will he crowned on Palm Sunday. The French King is in Lyon. His sons will he released on 4 March. - 3. Brodarics plans to go to France from Venice, then hack to Italy, where he wants to cure himself in Venice or Padua. - 4. Received news afterwards that the stance regarding the Emperors crowning had changed because the Emperor learnt that if he is crowned. German princes will elect a king of Rome that he likes.

Reverendissime et Illustris ac Magnifice Domini, Domini mihi Colcndissimi. Servitiorum meorum commendationem.

[1.] Perveni huc Venetias per mille discrimina viarum sexta huius mensis Ianuarii, quinto et quinquagesimo die,2 quam ex Buda discesseram, corpore satis invalido. Nam 5 per viam dolor me pedis sinistri vehementissimus invaserat, postea supervenit et brachii dextri dolor.

[2.] Hic reperi confoederationem Venetorum cum pontifice,3 caesare,4 serenissimo rege Bohemiae,5 duce Mediolani6 esse publicatam7 ita tamen, ut Venetis liceat etiam inimicis istorum amicos esse, prout serenissimo regi meo veram amicitiam ostenderunt io et ostendunt.8 In isto foedere dux Mediolani restituitur in statum cum trecentorum milium ducatorum solutione.9 Pontifici et caesari restituuntur et restitutae sunt iam urbes per Venetos alias occupatae10 cum centum milibus ducatorum in diversis terminis. Res ducis Ferrariensis11 super Mutina et Regio et Florentinorum adhuc pendent. Florentini adhuc viriliter se defendunt.12 Speratur inter hos quoque concordia. Pontifex

5 post pedis Jel. dextri 8 post etiam Jel. cum

2 This means that Brodarics left on 12 November 1529. Szapolyai informed Clement VII on I November 1529 that he had sent Brodarics to the King of France as a legate. See: TiliiiNtiR Augustin, Vetera Monumenta Slavarum... 608.

3 Clement VII.

4 Charles V, King of Spain (1516-1556), Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556).

5 Ferdinand Habsburg.

6 Francesco Maria Sforza (1495-1535)

7 The treaty that was signed by the parties listed by Brodarics on 23 December 1529 in Bologna was announced ceremonially on 1 January in Bologna. For the text see: Gaetano Giordani, Della venula e dimora in Bologna del sommopontifice Clemente VII., Bologna, 1842. Nr. XXX., 50-57.

8 Clement VII permitted for Venice not to announce the bull about the excommunication of Szapolyai on their territory. See Fraknói Vilmos, János király és a római Szent-Szék, Századok, 1902, 713.

Charles V was willing to support Francesco Sforza’s rule in Milan only in exchange for payment of a substantial pledge.

10 Venice gave up possession of Cervia and Ravenna, and offered to leave towns in Apulia that they had occupied. See Ludwig von Pastor, Geschichte der Pcipste, Vol. 4, Freiburg, 1956, 361-362., 381-382.

11 Duke of Ferrara Alfonso occupied Reggio and Modena during earlier battles and was not ready to return these to the Pope. He was quietly supported in this by Charles V, who wanted to weaken the papal state in Italy this way too. See Ludwig von Pastor, Geschichte der Pcipste, Vol. 4, Freiburg, 1956, 382-383.

12 Charles V committed himself in the peace treaty of Barcelona (29 June 1529) to help Clement VII in regaining power of the Medici in Florence. However, Florentines, influenced by Savonarola, defended their town heroically and surrendered to the besieging forces only in August. See Ludwig von Pastor, Geschichte der Pcipste, Vol. 4, Freiburg, 1956, 361-362., 370-372, 392.

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