Du Bellay, Letter to Jean de Selve, Rome, 29 March 1527

Letter signed, as governor of Turin and viceroy of Piedmont, to Jean de Selve, president of the Parlement de Paris, updating him on negotiations with Pope Clement VII, assuring him that they are following his instruction (“…Lundi on proposera la matiere en la sorte que demandez…”) and complaining about the hard pace of work (“…Ces jours passez les affaires pardeca ont esté en tel travail que je nay eu loisir dy vaquer, et vous asseure, monseigneur que depuys le jour que je arivay en ceste ville je nay apeine eu loisir des repas…”), 1 page, oblong 4to (192 x 216mm), Rome, 29 March [1526 or 1527], integral address panel, papered seal with remains of tapered locking strip, docketing. (Pin holes to left margin from previous binding.)

[with:] Two copy letters by Pope Clement VII to Jean de Selve, 2 pages, folio, 18 September 1526.

provenance: Thierry de Maigret & Thierry Bodin, Lettres et manuscrits autographes: archives historiques Jean de Selve [lots 1-156], Paris, 13 May 2013, lot 132. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale.