Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1522
quingentesimo decimoseptimo, regnorum nostrorum Hungáriáé et Bohemiae etc. anno primo. Iacobus Piso8 secretarius. 10 István Brodarics to Louis 111 Rome, I September 1522 Manuscript used: MOL, DL 25663 Published: I VÁNY! Béla, Adalékok a nemzetközi érintkezések történetéhez a Jagelló-korban% Történelmi Tár, 1906, 343-344. /. The Pope has arrived in Rome but has not received Brodarics in a public audience yet. However, he and Cardinal Medici have put forward Louis II s request to him in a private interview that a legate or nuncio be sent to the Nurcmbeig Imperial Diet. - 2. Brodarics assures King Louis that that he could find no Pope more suitable Jbr his purposes than Adrian. Mar supino has returned from Florence to Rome too. Now they work together on behalf of the King. - 3. He complains that he has no money and he doesn't get any from the Fuggers in spite of the King having instructed them to lend him some. If he does not receive money soon, he will he compelled to sell everything he has and crawl back to Hungary in shame with barely one servant. - 4. He, too, deems the diplomatic mission to France mentioned by King Louis quite useful, but he cannot travel there without money. Sacra Regia Maiestas, Domine, Domine mihi Gratiosissime. Post humillimam servitutis meae commendationem. [1.] XXVIII huius mensis Augusti venit Sanctissimus Dominus Noster1 2 ad sanctum Paulum monasterium non longe a moenibus Urbis distans. Sequenti die ingressus 5 Urbem, postea die Dominica3 fuit coronatus. Adhuc nihil potuit agi de negotiis Maie- statis Vestrae apud Suam Sanctitatem. Credo nos cras aut perendie habituros audientiam publicam, id est consistorialem a Sua Sanctitate. Quamvis iam in audientia pris Jacobus Piso (1480-1527), offspring of a Saxon middle class family from Medgyes, noted Humanist, poet and diplomat, friend and pen friend of Erasmus, member of the circle of László Szálkái who would become Archbishop of Esztergom. One of the tutors of the child King Louis from 1516, Royal Secretary from 1520. We have no other data about a permanent contact with Brodarics, who was roughly of the same age, but perhaps it is not just by accident that he wrote the letter on the coat of arms, which praises literature and science, in such elegant Latin. 1 Fraknói refers to this letter when he states that one of Brodarics’ tasks was to persuade the Pope to intervene so that Pál Tömöri accepts arcbishopric of Kalocsa. (Compare: Fraknói Vilmos, Tömöri Pál élele. Századok, 1881, 310.) Brodarics might have had such an assignment but it cannot be justified with the text of this letter. 2 Hadrian VI (1522-1523) was elected Pope on 9 January 1522.-1 On 31 August. 57
