Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio Segreto Estense, Archivi per Materia, Pittori 16/4

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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. 139; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”,I, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 594-95.
Notes: Original taken from a ducal minute.

Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Alfonso Paolucci, in Rome: he may receive the fifty ducats from Raphael's inheritance as the Duke does not wish for the portrait to be executed in Rome.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 14.5.1520
[...] Procurate pur di rihaver li cinquanta ducati da la heredità di Raphael da Urbino, ché non havendo noi potuto haver la pictura nostra di sua mano, non la volemo far fare in Roma. [...]