Library › Latin: Letters › Epistola ad Stephanum Brodericum
In this letter of 14 February 1538 Antun Vrančić writes to Stephanus Brodericus (Stjepan Brodarić or István Brodarics), bishop of Vác, the Croatian-born humanist and chancellor known for his account of the battle of Mohács. Vrančić, who honours him with filial devotion, explains that he ought to write more often to tell him what each day brings at court, but he has only common news of the street, unworthy of the bishop’s ears, and knows that Brodericus is informed daily by the king’s letters and by others with weightier news.
He therefore confines himself to the customary greetings, wishing the bishop health, prosperity and many years, though only as long as they do not become wearisome, and offers his service. The letter is slight in content but shows the respect in which the younger Vrančić held Brodarić, one of the leading statesmen and humanists of Zápolya’s party, and illustrates the courtesies that governed correspondence between a young courtier and a senior prelate.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa), University of Zagreb (edition: László Szalay, Siječnja 2008), through Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich), licensed CC BY 4.0. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.