Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio Segreto Estense, Cancelleria ducale, Estero, Ambasciatori, Roma, b. 26 (170-IX-103)

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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, “Documents inedit sur Raphael tires des archives palatines de Modene”, in “Gazette des Beaux-Arts', XIV, 1863, p. 445; 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, p. 613.

Alfonso d'Este, in Ferrara, writes to Alfonso Paolucci, attaching a formal mandate to receive the 50 ducats from Raphael's inheritance.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 24.8.1520
[...] Qui alligato sarà il mandato in forma debita fatto in persona vostra da possere exigere quelli cinquanta ducati da la heredità de Raphael da Urbino, e farne fine e quietatione alli commissarii et ad essa heredità; procurate donque de haverli. [...]