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. Cartwright, “ Baldassare Castiglione in the Perfect Courtier: His life and Letters 1478-1529”, London New York 1908, II, p. 187; 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. 748.

Baldassarre Castiglione, in Mantua, writes to Andrea Piperario, in Rome, saying that he must persist in trying to acquire the painting belonging to Antonio da San Marino.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 22.4.1523
[...] Circa il quadro de maestro Antonio, e la tavoletta de Mons.re de Scalés, non mi occorre dirvi altro se non che fate come fate. [...]