Location: Mantova, Archivio di Stato
Sub-Location: Archivio Gonzaga 868
Sub-Location: Archivio Gonzaga 868
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400
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Type:Personal Letter
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by A. Baschet, “Documents inedits tires des archives de Mantoue concernant la personne de messer Pietro Aretino”, in “Archivio storico italiano” Ser 3, III, parte II, (1866), p. 119; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sourcess”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 785-86.
Notes: The document appears on the following folios: c. 400r-v. The document was also recorded in the Archivio Gonzaga, Schede Davari.
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by A. Baschet, “Documents inedits tires des archives de Mantoue concernant la personne de messer Pietro Aretino”, in “Archivio storico italiano” Ser 3, III, parte II, (1866), p. 119; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sourcess”, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 785-86.
Notes: The document appears on the following folios: c. 400r-v. The document was also recorded in the Archivio Gonzaga, Schede Davari.
Francesco Gonzaga, in Rome, writes to Federico Gonzaga, in Mantua, about the Raphael portrait to be sent. In addition, Pietro Aretino will send his poem on War.
Artist(s): RaphaelDates: 30.11.1524
[...] Ho lecto il capitolo a messer Pietro Aretino pertinente a lui, qual me ha ditto che questa sera satisfarà, cum N. S.re, sopra il quadro de pictura che se ha ad mandare a V. Ex.tia, alla quale basa la mano et in soa bona gratia se riccomanda, promettendo mandarli una canzone che ha novamente composta, la qual veramente è molto bella, e penso debba piacere assai a V. Ex.tia, et è sopra il subietto de queste guerre.
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