Location: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Sub-Location: MS Vat. lat. 8208
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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, “Giulio Romano and Baldassarre Castiglione”, in “Giulio Romano. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi su Giulio Romano e l’espansione europea del rinascimento”, Mantova 1989, p. 300; 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. 745.

Baldassarre Castiglione, in Mantova, writes to Andrea Piperario, in Rome: he wants to know Giulio and Penni's progress in acquiring the painting 'che fu de maestro Antonio da San Marino'.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 19.2.1523
[...] desidero intendere che Giulio e Giovan Francesco habbiano fatto qualche opera per quel quadro che fu de maestro Antonio da San Marino; pregovi lo intendiate e me diate aviso. [...]