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Writing from Buda on 12 March 1526, Stjepan Brodarić, bishop-elect of Srijem, tells Pope Clement VII that on that day the matter of the chancellorship was settled, through the pope’s authority and intercession and the work of the baron, the papal envoy. He cannot find words to thank the pope, and says it would be better to repay him by deeds: he will conduct himself in this office so that his service is useful to his king and to the kingdom, and wholly devoted to the pope and the Holy See. He promises to strive for this with all his strength as long as he lives.
The letter records the moment when Brodarić became chancellor of Hungary, an appointment owed largely to papal pressure. It shows the close relationship between the Hungarian court and Rome in the months before Mohács, when the papacy sought to strengthen Hungary against the Ottomans. Together with his other letters to Clement VII, preserved in the Vatican archives, it documents Brodarić’s political career at its height.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa), University of Zagreb (edition: Bessenyei József, Siječnja 2012), 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.