Location: Modena, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio Gonzaga 2923, Reg. lit. F. II. 9, 243
Sub-Location: Archivio Gonzaga 2923, Reg. lit. F. II. 9, 243
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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by J. Shearman, “Alfonso d’Este’s Camerino”, in ‘ “Il se rendit en Italie”. Etudes offetres a André Chastel’, Roma 1987, pp. 215,227; 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. 235.
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by J. Shearman, “Alfonso d’Este’s Camerino”, in ‘ “Il se rendit en Italie”. Etudes offetres a André Chastel’, Roma 1987, pp. 215,227; 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. 235.
Francesco Gonzaga renews the command to Carlo Agnello to execute portraits of the rhino and the elephant.
Artist(s): RaphaelDates: 19.3.1516
[...] Havemo anche noi conosciuto che non hai recevuto tutte le nostre littere, perché non ne hai resposto a quello, in che te scrivessimo che ce mandasti il retratto del rhinocerote che ha mandato vivo a Nostro S.or lo Re di Portogallo, e del elephante che è in Roma, per poterli noi fare dipingere qui, e che ne mandasti le mesure iuste, se ben li retratti fossero picoli [.. .].
