Location: Firenze, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Mediceo avanti il Principato 143

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by J. Shearman, “Alfonso d’Este’s Camerino”, in ‘ “Il se rendit en Italie”. Etudes offetres a André Chastel’, Roma 1987, pp. 210, 228; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, I,Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 362-63.
Notes: The document is included in letter 131.

Benedetto Buondelmonti, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence, summarising a letter from Cardinal Bibbiena: the paintings have arrived in Nantes on the same day as the King and Queen.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 21.8.1518
Sommario di lettera di S.ta Maria im Portico alla Ex. del Duca de X d’agosto: [.. .] Come erano arrivati li quadri di pictura e son presentati e parso bellissimi. Che il X.mo quel dì havea facto la intrata privata in Nantes e così la Regina. [...]