Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio Segreto Estense, Cancelleria ducale, Estero, Ambasciatori, Roma, b. 22 (143-VIII-69)

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by G. Campori,“Notizie inedite di Raffaello da Urbino tratte da documenti dell’Archivio Palatino di Modena”, in “Memorie delle RR Deputazioni di Storia Patria per le Province Modenesi e Parmensi”, I, 1863, p. 117; 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. 330.
Notes: Transcription by J. Shearman revised by Valentina Ricci Vitiani.

Beltrame Costabili, in Rome, writes to Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara: Raphael is constantly engaged on work for Francis I; when he has finished this work he will be at Alfonso's sole service.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 28.3.1518
[...] Ho parlato cum Raphael da Urbino, il qualle de continuo è intorno a l’opera il fa per il Christianissimo Re, il qualle me ha dato la fede che fornita l’haverà non attenderà ad altro cha a l’opera de V. Ex.a. [...]