Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato.
Sub-Location: Archivio Segreto Estense, Cancelleria ducale, Estero, Ambasciatori, Roma, b. 25 (170-III-54)

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: G. Campori, “Documents inédits sur Raphael tirés des archives palatines de Modène”, in “Gazette des Beaux-Arts XIV, 1863, p. 449; 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. 456.

Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome, assures Alfonso d'Este that he will soon seek to gain Raphael's trust and that he will attempt to see the painting that he is working on for the Duke.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 11.6.1519
[...] Con Rafael de Urbino non ho ancor potuto essere; vi serò ogni modo, ché pur’ me li som comentiato a domesticare. E farò opera vedere la pictura fa per essa. [...]