Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato.
Sub-Location: Archivio Segreto Estense, Casa e Stato 73, Lettera di Alfonso a Ippolito, 1511-14 (1653-XVI-18);

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: J. Shearman, ‘Alfonso d’Este’s Camerino’, ‘Il se rendit en Itali’. Etudes offertes à André Chastel, Rome and Paris, 1987, pp. 212,226,; 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, pp. 190-191.
Notes: A copy of this document is amongst the 'spoglie' in the Archivio Segreto Estense, Archivi per Materia, Pittori 16/4.

Alfonso d'Este writes to his brother, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, asking him to pay Raphael fifty ducats on his behalf.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 4.12.1514
[...] Desideraria che V. S. facesse parlare a Rafael da Urbino, e comenzata o non che fusse la opera mi ha ad fare, li facesse exbursare per epso conto cinquanta ducati, ad ciò si disponesse più a servirmi. Et io subito li farro remettere a V. S. […]