Location: Mantova, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio Gonzaga 861

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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, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 164-65.

Grossino, in Rome, writes to Francesco Gonzaga, in Mantua: Raphael has promised that he will begin the portrait of Federico today.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 10.1.1513
[...] Maestro Rafaello da Urbino me ha deto comenzará hozi a retrare il S. Federico. [...]