Location: Firenze, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Carte di Urbino, Classe I, Divisione G, filza 134
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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by S. Eiche, 'Girolamo Genga the Architect: an Enquiry into his Background', in Mitteilunghen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz XXXV (1991), p. 320; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, p. 723.

Alessandro Nerio, in Rome, writes to Francesco Maria della Rovere, in Urbino, saying that he has been in contact with an architect and pupil of Raphael.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 7.6.1522
[...] Ho trovato uno architettore, creato di Raphael, il qual per adesso dice non possere venire ad satisfare, ma che a questo agosto andarà a Loreto, e poi virà a trovare V. Ex.a. [...]