Venice: January 1548

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January 1548

1548. Jan. 8. Lettere del Collegio (Secreta), File no. 18. 529. The Doge and College to Domenico Bollani, Venetian Ambassador in England.
To communicate the underwritten advices from Constantinople as usual.
[Italian.]
MS. St. Mark's Library, Cod. xxiv. Cl. x. No date of time or place in MS. 530. Cardinal Pole to the Cardinal of Mantua [Eecole Gonzaga].
Requests him to grant the privilege (privilegio) to print the works of the late Cardinal Bembo, (fn. 1) which privilege to be in conformity with the one given by the Pope in this matter. Cardinal Bembo appointed Pole protector (protettore) (fn. 2) of his will, in which he expressly charges Messer Carlo Gualteruzzi to print his works. Cannot but perform this office for twofold reasons, and particularly lest Messer Carlo, who has to incur the cost of printing, be a loser thereby, as might easily prove the case, unless he obtains the privileges from the Cardinal of Mantua and the other Italian potentates in whose towns books are printed, and by the greater part of whom they have been very graciously conceded. Encloses copy of the briefs for the information of the Cardinal's Chancery (Cancellaria) (fn. 3)
Rome, 1548?
[Italian.]

Footnotes

  • 1. Cardinal Bembo died on the 18th January 1547. His will was dated 5th September 1544.
  • 2. In Morelli's preface to Bembo's Venetian History (Venezia, 1790) it is stated that there were two protectors of the will, both Cardinals, but their names are not given. The executors were a Venetian Nobleman and Friar, by name Girolamo Quirini and Carlo Gualteruzzi of Fano, to which last Bembo confided the task of editing his works. Quirini wished to print the Italian version of the Cardinal's Venetian History in Venice, and Gualteruzzi, by the letter, seems to have intended publishing it at Mantua, but Quirini appealed to the Doge and Council of Ten, and as Bembo was the paid historian of the Republic, Gualteruzzi at length consigned his manuscript to the State, and Cardinal Pole's attempt in favour of Gualteruzzi proved vain.
  • 3. As already stated, Ercole Gouzaga was regent of Mantua.
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