Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato.
Sub-Location: Archivio Segreto Estense, Cancelleria ducale, Estero, Ambasciatori, Roma, b. 25 (170-II-53).

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: R. Pacciani, “New information on Raphael and Giuliano Leno in the Diplomatic Correspondence of Alfonso d’Este”, in “The Art Bulletin”, LXVII, 1985, p. 141; 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. 43.

Alfonso Paolucci informs Alfonso d'Este that after lunch the Pope visited Cardinal Medici's vineyard, where he intends to invest forty thousand ducats.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 13.3.1519
[...] Il Papa dipoi pransò con molti cardinali gioveni; si n’è andato a lavigna de Monsignor Reverendissimo M[edici], dove intendo fa una fabrica de quarantamilla ducati; e si n’è sta’ in piacer tuto hozi. [...]