Location: Firenze, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Mediceo avanti il Principato 144, lettera 101.

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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: no
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by J. Cox Rearick, “The Collection on Francis I: Royal Treasures”, Anversa 1995, p. 203; 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. 332.

Baldassarre Turini, in Rome, writes to Goro Gheri, in Florence: he ought to tell the Duke that Raphael is working exclusively for him and that the work should be finished within the month.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 11.4.1518
[...] Fate intendere a S. Ex.a che Raphaello da Urbino non attende ad altro che ad lavorare per lei e che per tutto questo mese harà finito ogni cosa; et io non manco di tenerlo sollicitato. [...]