Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)
1539
348 István Brodarics to Sigismund I Buda, 11 August 1539 Manuscript used: Libri Legationum vol. VI, föl. 109a— 114a Published: Tóth Péter (ed.). A lengyel királyi kancellária Libri legationum sorozatának magyar vonatkozású iratai 11. 1526-1541, Miskolc, 2003, 206-207. /. They have received news from Venice that the French legate returned from Constantinople, but peace cannot he made with the lurks before they get Castelnuovo back. Hayreddin Barbarossa is in front of the town with 150 ships, while Andrea Doria is off the coast of Sici/v with 60 ga/levs. - 2. Having sorted out matters in Spain, Charles V sailed to Genoa, and from there he is heading for Nuremberg to prepare for the war against the Turks. - 3. Either he or another legate will inform Sigismund on his talks with the imperial legate. - 4. Ay as Pasha is dead, Ludji Pasha replaced him; terrible plague rages in Constantinople. Serenissime Rex et Domine, Domine Clementissime. Post servitutis meae humillimam commendationem. [1.] Ex Venetiis habuimus oratorem Christianissimi regis rediisse ex Constantinopoli, nullam pacem esse factam sive indutias, ut sperabatur, inter Christianos principes et 5 Tuream, illum enim noluisse ne verbum quidem audire de pace, nisi prius restituto Novigrod, alias Castello Novo1 aestate superiori [!] per Andreám Doriam1 2 intercepto, Barbarossam3 cum 150 navibus esse non longe a Castello Novo, Andreám Doriam circum oram Siciliae cum LX triremibus, inauditam esse famem quasi per totam Italiam. [2.] Caesarem Carolum rebus suis omnibus in Hispania recte dispositis duobus cárit dinalibus Hispanis et duce Calabriae4 relictis ad Hispaniarum gubernationem et filii sui tutelam accepta licentia ad tres annos navigare in Italiam, circa medium Septembris proximi mensis futurum Genuae, inde venturum in Germaniam ad conventum Norim- bergensem adhuc ante hiemem pro bello Tureis inferendo, non defuturas tamen ei vices etiam maritimas contra hostem. Deus haec prosperet et fortunet. 5 Quid hic actum sit cum oratore caesareo,5 Vestra Maiestas intelliget a me vel ab alio, qui ad Vestram Maiestatem mittetur.6 1 Andrea Doria won back Castelnuovo (today: Hercegnovi, Bosnia-Herzegovina) in the Kotor Bay in the autumn of 1538, but Hayreddin Barbarossa conquered it again in August 1539. : Andrea Doria (1466-1560), admiral of Charles V from Genoa. •’ Hayreddin Barbarossa (around 1478-1546), Algerian pirate chieftain, commander of the Turkish fleet from 1532. He had an important role in building up Turkish power in the Mediterranean. 4 Ferdinand of Aragon (1488-1550) Royal Prince of Naples, heir to the throne, Duke of Calabria, Viceroy of Valencia. Nephew of former Hungarian Queen Beatrix of Aragon. 5 Archbishop of Lund Johann Wese. 6 Brodarics could not travel to Poland. Ferenc Frangepán, whom Szapolyai sent in place of him, wrote to Nuncio Giovanni Morone in September 1539 that the gout that tormented Brodarics was so serious that he would hardly be able to take part in public affairs again. (Dominus Bmdericus episcopus Vaciensis adeo oppressus est podagra, ul nulla spes sit, ul possit publicis rebus amplius inservire.) See Ováry Lipót, III. Pál pápa és Farnese Sándor bibornok Magyarországra vonalkozó diplomácziai levelezései 1535-1549. Budapest, 1879, 77. 597
