At a glanceKnown key applied · partial (100% of the cipher)
- The letters
- Cardinal Alessandrino (Michele Bonelli, nephew of Pius V) to the Madrid nuncio Castagna, 1568: ten ciphers, plus one of 1569.
- Where
- Spagna 6/I and 6/II. DECODE has the transcriptions, 9,842 digits in 6/I, with a key but no plaintext; the catalogue here listed them as open.
- The cipher
- Polyphonic: each digit 1–9 stands for two letters, 0 is a null, and a small nomenclator uses four-digit groups with zeros in second and fourth place.
- How it was read
- Lasry’s 2020 key, with a search choosing between the two letters of each digit, scored by a model of 16th-century Italian. It gives continuous Italian on all eleven.
- What it says
- An approach to marry Philip II to a French princess, the Pope’s complaints about the King’s ministers, the Bolognese exiles, and Borromeo’s quarrel with the Milan senate.
- Still open
- A few dotted groups outside Lasry’s list, single-letter choices, and the comparison with Serrano’s 1914 print, which could not be reached.
- Credit
- George Lasry reconstructed the key in 2020.
01 The documents and the key
Spagna 6/I is described by the archive as “Lettere orig. e cifre del cardinale Alessandrino dal 16 gennaio 1568”. DECODE has ten ciphertexts from it (items 1–10: ff. 6r, 42r, 55r, 81r, 88r–89v, 136r, 169r–v, 291r–v, 306r; item 8 has no folio on DECODE), 9,842 digits in all, and one from 6/II (item 13, f. 641r, 1569; 769 digits). None is dated on DECODE; the dossier’s folio order places 6/I in 1568, but R94’s covering letter (f. 44r, Rome 7 November 1567, “Con questa un poco di cifra”) dates that one to 1567, and R96’s covering letter is of 19 May 1568. The transcriptions were made for DECODE in 2016–2020 and are used here as they stand.
Lasry’s key, attached to every record:
- Letters: 1 u|t · 2 i|m · 3 f|g · 4 a|l · 5 o|s · 6 e|n · 7 d|r · 8 b|c · 9 p|z · 0 null. There is no sign for h or q.
- Nomenclator: 1010 Nostro Signore · 1020, 4010, 9010 Sua Santità · 1050 Francia · 1090 V. S. · 2060 non · 2090 che · 3010 Re · 4030 S. M.tà · 4060 questo · 4090, 9030 Germania · 5020 per · 5090 qui · 6090 quel · 7090 quello · 8010 Re di Francia · 9020 quelle · 9060 questa; dotted 0̇0 comma, 3 0̇ 9 qua; and a few tentative (1040 Regina di Francia?, 3040 Fiandra?, 8090 sapere?).
The contemporary decipherments correct and extend it: 9 also stands for con, dotted 0 for z, 0̇0 for et; 1040 is lettere
(not Regina di Francia), 8090 havere, 4010 Re di Francia (not Sua Santità), 2010 Imperatore, and 1020 esser, 3020 quando,
3060 -mente, 4020 come, 4040 Milano, 4080 et, 5070, 6050 and 7070 Imbasciatore, 6060 Inquisitione, 7030 Cardinale,
7040 galere, 8020 avviso, 8070 Ugonotti, 3050 and 6030 Italia, 9090 havendo, 6020 causa. The extended key is in
key.md.
02 A marriage for the King of France
The first cipher (f. 6r), as deciphered from the figures and the contemporary decipherment on f. 8:
N.S. è ricercato qui da alcuni amorevoli della corona di Francia a fare officio con Imperatore perché si contenti dare una delle sue figliole per moglie al Re di Francia; la qual pratica N.S. non ha voluta movere, non sapendo l'animo di Re in questa parte. Però V.S. potrà scoprirlo con quella maniera che le parerà più opportuna et conveniente, asecurandola che N.S. non è per farne parola mai se prima non saperà qual sia l'intentione sua espressamente; et saputa che […] l'habbia, mi ne darà avviso con la prima commodità.
“His Holiness is asked here by some friends of the crown of France to use his good offices with the Emperor so that he be pleased to give one of his daughters as wife to the King of France; His Holiness has not wished to set this negotiation moving without knowing the King’s mind in this matter. Your Lordship will therefore find it out … assuring him that His Holiness will never say a word of it before he knows what his intention is …” The September decryption had taken the codes 2010 and 4010 with Lasry’s tentative values and made this a French bride for Philip II; the decipherment gives the Emperor and the King of France. Charles IX married the Emperor Maximilian II’s daughter Elisabeth of Austria in 1570. The fourth cipher (f. 81r, R96) is still waiting for an answer “sopra il particolare del matrimonio”, judging that it might bring “qualche bona unione o lega tra questi tre principi principali della Christianità”.
03 All eleven, in brief
Each letter’s full Italian text and English translation are in the Full texts section below; the quotations are from those readings.
- 6/I/1, f. 6r (R93). The French marriage request, above.
- 6/I/2, f. 42r (R94), November 1567. Jurisdiction: the Pope “non intende di revocare i suoi privilegii antichi, ma sì bene di levare li abusi cresciuti in essi per colpa delli suoi ministri”; if the King strips the Holy See of its authority, the Pope will resist “non con forze temporali” but with spiritual ones, “usque ad effusionem sanguinis”.
- 6/I/3, f. 55r (R95). The French ambassador’s claim about raising troops in the state of Milan; the crusade alms and indulgence; the man who said “che il Re si saria alienato da questa santa Sede”; the Pope grieves more for the King’s soul than for any human respect.
- 6/I/4, f. 81r (R96). The marriage again; Scipione [?Cuttinardo], who aspires to be Regent of the Collateral, indicted by the Holy Office as a heretic; the order against the Hermits of St Jerome.
- 6/I/5, ff. 88r–89v (R97), four pages. The Duke of Ferrara, offended over exiles of the contado of Bologna, may complain to the King through Count Ercole Tassone; the Duke is the Holy See’s “feudatario”, bound to return its exiles. The French ambassador at Constantinople offers to join the Huguenots and the Protestants with the Turks, and at Adrianople urges Piali Pasha to come with a great fleet against Rome: “la povera Christianità”.
- 6/I/6, f. 136r (R98). The King’s orders to his ministers in Italy against a Huguenot move lose their effect while the ministers wait for new commissions; the nuncio is to ask for express orders.
- 6/I/7, f. 169r–v (R99). The Order of St Lazarus, its Grand Master and two galleys from Gian Andrea Doria; Don John of Austria’s opposition; in Milan the senate’s threats to the archbishop’s vicar before the Corpus Domini procession: the Pope “pensa di procedere in questa causa contra di loro con quelle armi spirituali che il signor Dio gli ha date”. The letter builds coherent sentences but reads at 94.7%, under the 95% bar.
- 6/I/8 (R100). The King’s ministers obstruct the Inquisition of Catalonia; the nuncio is to execute the brief.
- 6/I/9, f. 291r–v (R101). The chinea and the St Peter’s-day dues accepted under the fisc’s protest; devolution under the investitures of Julius II and Julius III; “un manifesto scisma in quello regno”, bishops’ notaries and executors imprisoned; “chi è disobediente a Dio et al suo vicario non sarà meraviglia se perderà la obedientia de' suoi sudditi”.
- 6/I/10, f. 306r (R102). Cardinal [Espinosa] fails in his office with the King in the service of the Holy See, and the Pope has judged him “indegno di quella dignità che tiene”; the nuncio may let him know, if amendment can be hoped for.
- 6/II/13, f. 641r (R115), 1569. The nomination of Don [?Francesco] de Reinoso to the see of Monreale, and the transfer to it of pensions on the archdeaconry of Toledo. It builds coherent sentences but reads at 88.5%, under the 95% bar.
04 Method
Each digit 1–9 gives two letters and 0 nothing, but a group X0Y0 may be a nomenclator word or two letters with their nulls.
The decoder (targets/alessandrino1568/decrypt.py) works through the page keeping the best few partial decryptions at each step; at each digit it tries both letters, the null, and
any nomenclator group that starts there, and scores the resulting Italian with the repository’s shared five-gram model (it-cinquecento,
spaces removed). The same code, with a different key table, decrypted the Morosini ciphers of 1588–89. Every page decodes at about −1.75
nats a letter, the level of ordinary text for this model, and ends in a few letters of clerk’s padding.
That score did not make the text a reading. Divided into words, the beam output had corrupted runs
(“liberagemptume”, “unmannifestsobismain”) and many single letters chosen by the model, and the reading audit of 22–23 October
2026 classed the letters decoded, not read until each was checked. The records’ DECODE “cleartext” images were then opened one by
one: R94 (f. 45r), R95 (f. 58r) and R100 (under the cipher, f. 280r) on 22 October, and R93 (f. 8), R96 (f. 80), R97 (f. 90r–v), R98
(f. 139), R99 (a leaf after f. 169), R102 (f. 307) and R115 (a half-sheet with f. 641) on 23 October each hold the contemporary
decipherment. Each was transcribed and aligned word by word with the figures (reread_aless_align.py); where the decipherer and
the figures differ, the figures decide. R101 has no decipherment; it was decoded again with the extended key and deciphered word by
word on the figures.
05 What remains uncertain
- R94: two short gaps the contemporary decipherer also left (the group 9 0 4 0 2 0 before S.M., and a verb after “comincia”).
- R95: the dotted groups [08.] (the Crusade?) and [3.] (a person), and two words where the decipherment is illegible.
- R101: two places under a burn and a hole in the paper, one illegible group, the place-name [?Sora] and code 6020.
- R93, R96–R99, R102, R115: short runs and codes the decipherers left blank or gave words the figures do not carry: one group in R93; the heretic’s surname in R96; four runs in R97 (“Duca di Ferrara” and “Principe di Condé” rest on the decipherer’s word); [?possa] and [?et] in R98; the stretch after d’Oria and the head of the Milan paragraph in R99 (code 2020 open); three words in R102; codes 4050, 2010 (where the decipherer has N.S.), 9070 and four runs in R115, whose last sentence is only partly carried.
- Dotted groups [01.], [03.], [4.]8 and others are partly or not resolved.
- No comparison yet with Serrano’s edition, which prints Alessandrino–Castagna letters (not reachable from here).
- Transcriptions are DECODE’s; where the decipherer and the figures differ the place was checked on the image.
Full texts
The transcription and the decryption of every document on this page, so that the reading can be used and checked. Short files are shown here; all are in the repository.
R93 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 1, f. 006r (DECODE R93), unknown)
Friends of the French crown ask the Pope to use his offices with the Emperor for a marriage of one of the Emperor's daughters to the King of France; the Pope will not move without knowing Philip II's mind, and the nuncio is to sound it discreetly and report.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/1/ #IMAGE NAME: 006r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: TimB #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: January 26, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 15 mins #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: speech recognition (Google Docs). #IMAGE NAME: 006r.jpg 1 0 1 0 6 0 7 2 8 6 7 8 4 1 5 0 5 0 9 0 7 4 0 4 4 8 1 6 2 0 4 2 5 7 6 1 5 4 2 0 7 6 4 4 0 8? 5 7 5 6 4 7 2 0 1 0 5 0 4 0 3 4 7 6 0 5 3 2 8 2 5 0 9 0 2 0 1 0 4^. 0 8 0 5 2 0 9 1 6 6 1 2 0 7 4 7 6 0 1 6 4 7 6 4 6 0 5 1 6 0 3 2 3 4 2 5 4 6 0 5 0 2 0 2 5 3 4 2 6 0 4 0 4 0 1 0 4 4 0 3 0 9 4 0 9 7 4 1 2 8 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 6 0 4 0 1 5 4 1 1 4 0 2 5 1 6 7 6 0 2 0 6 0 5 4 9 6 6 7 5 0 4 4 6 2 2 5 0 7 2 0 3 0 1 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 9 4 7 1 6 0 5 0 2 5 0 1 0 9 0 9 5 1 7 4 0 5 8 5 9 7 2 7 4 5 0 9 0 7 0 9 0 2 4 6 2 6 7 4 2 0 9 0 4 6 0 9 4 7 6 7 4 0 9 2 1 0 5 9 5 7 1 1 6 4 0 0^. 0 9 1 6 6 2 6 6 1 6 0 4 5 6 8 1 7 4 6 7 5 4 4 2 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 6 0 6 0 5 0 2 0 3 4 7 6 6 0 9 4 7 5 4 4 0 2 4 2 0 5 6 0 9 7 2 2 4 0 2? 0 6 0 5 4 9 6 7 4 0 3 0 9 4 0 5 2 4 0 4 2 6 1 6 6 1 2 5 6 6 0 5 1 4 0 6 5 9 7 6 5 4 3 0 6 0 0^. 0 5 4 9 1 1 4 0 2 0 9 6 5 4 0 4 4 8 2 4 0 2 2 6 6 0 7 4 7 4 0 8? 0 2 0 9 0 4 4 0 9 7 2 2 4 0 8 5 2 5 7 2 1 4 0 9 3 7 9 3
Decryption
# R93: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R93 006r.jpg (451 items, -1.80/item) tuedicercato[QUI]daalcuniamoreuolidelacoronadi[FRANCIA]afareoficiopiu[04.]comptentirareunarelesuefigliole[PER]moglielaua[SUA MAESTA]papratica[NOSTRO SIGNORE][NON]auolutaistere[NON]sapendolanimodifuin[QUEL]partesisuppotrascoprira[QUI][QUELLO]maniera[CHE]leparerapiusportunapunementeasecurandola[CHE]tu[NON]e[PER]farneparolamaioeprima[NON]saper[SUA MAESTA]pasialintentionestanopresagesaputampesalabilimendadac[CHE]laprimacomoditapfdzg
Reading
# R93 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher (Spagna 6/I/1, f. 6r): reading
Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on the slip bound as f. 8 of the same file (`R93_decifrato_f8r.txt`, DECODE
cleartext image DOC_R93_D1216), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), checked figure by figure against the key
(`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R93_D1664_1664.txt 006r.jpg texts/R93_reading.md`). Where the decipherer
and the figures differ the figures are followed: "officio" (8 = c) for his "offitio"; 1010 N.S. for his "S.S.";
"voluta" (… 1 4) for "voluto"; "asecurandola" (4 5 6 8 …) for "assicurandola"; 3010 Re alone for his "Re Catholico";
he added "S.M." after "perché" (4^. 8) with no figures for it. "Al Re di Francia" is 4 0 4010 (see the notes).
New code values from this decipherment: 2010 Imperatore (his "Imper.re"; the code carries no article), 8020 avviso,
4010 Re di Francia; 5090 qui and 1050 Francia confirmed. The decode of 23 Oct
(`R93_decryption.txt`, beam search) is superseded.
Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied.
## Reading
N.S. è ricercato qui da alcuni amorevoli della corona di Francia a fare officio con Imperatore perché si contenti
dare una delle sue figliole per moglie al Re di Francia; la qual pratica N.S. non ha voluta movere, non sapendo
l'animo di Re in questa parte. Però V.S. potrà scoprirlo con quella maniera che le parerà più opportuna et
conveniente, asecurandola che N.S. non è per farne parola mai se prima non saperà qual sia l'intentione sua
espressamente; et saputa che […] l'habbia, mi ne darà avviso con la prima commodità.
## Notes on the figures
- "è ricercato": 1010 6 0 7 2 8 6 7 8 4 1 5; "qui" 5 0 9 0; "Francia" 1 0 5 0, then 4 = "a".
- "con Imperatore": 0 9 (con) 0 2 0 1 0 — 2010 is the Emperor (the decipherer "l'Imper.re"; R96's "l'Imp.re").
- "perché": dotted 4 + 8, as in R95. The decipherer's "S.M." after it has no figures.
- "al Re di Francia": figures 4 0 4 0 1 0 between "moglie" (2 5 3 4 2 6) and "la qual" (4 4 0 3 0 9 4): 4 = a,
then 4010 = Re di Francia, as in R96 ("tra Imperatore et Re di Francia"), not Lasry's "Sua Santità".
- "l'animo di Re in questa": 4 6 2 2 5 0 7 2 0 3 0 1 2 6 0 6090 — 301 is 3010 Re written X0Y.
- "espressamente": 6 5 9 7 6 5 4 3 0 6 0 (3060 = -mente); the decipherer split it "espres|sam.te".
- "che […] l'habbia": 2 0 9 | 6 5 4 0 4 4 8 2 4; the decipherer wrote "che l'habbia"; 6 5 4 not read.
- "avviso": 8 0 2 0 (8020, new; also in R101 and R99).
- End: 0 9 3 7 9 3 is the clerk's filler.Translation
# R93 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher, 1568) Same holes as R93_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. His Holiness is asked here by some friends of the crown of France to use his good offices with the Emperor so that he be pleased to give one of his daughters as wife to the King of France; His Holiness has not wished to set this negotiation moving without knowing the King's mind in this matter. Your Lordship will therefore find it out in the way that seems most suitable and fitting to you, assuring him that His Holiness will never say a word of it before he knows what his intention is, expressly; and once you have learned it […], you will let me know at the first opportunity.
R94 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 2, f. 042r (DECODE R94), unknown)
Covering letter Rome 7 Nov 1567 ("Con questa un poco di cifra"): the Pope does not mean to revoke the King's ancient privileges but to remove abuses grown through his ministers; the nuncio is to say so at a suitable moment, once the King is out of the trouble of the funerals; if the King strips the Holy See of its authority, the Pope will resist with spiritual arms "usque ad effusionem sanguinis".
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/2 #IMAGE NAME: 042r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: TimB #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: January 28, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 30 mins #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: speech recognition (Google Docs). #IMAGE NAME: 042r.jpg 9 0 8 5 6 4 0 5 8 4 5 2 5 6 6 0 0^. 0 2 6 1 2 1 4 1 5 0 1^. 0 8 0 7 4 4 0 7 4 3 2 5 6 4 2 6 6 1 5 0 2 0 9 3 0 1 0 3 4 8 2 4 0 4 4 8 1 6 4 0 1 5 4 1 4 0 9 0 1 0 9 0 5 5 9 7 4 0 6 0 9 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 6 0 7 2 0 3 2 1 7 2 5 7 2 1 2 5 6 6 0 1 0 1 0 1 5 4 6 0 2 0 9 0 6 4 4 0 4 6 0 7 2 8 4 0 4 2 8 6 7 4 3 0 6 0 2 0 9 1 0 1 0 2 0 6 0 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 0 7 2 0 7 6 1 5 8 4 7 6 0 2 0 5 1 5 2 0 9 7 2 1 2 4 6 3 2 0 4 6 1 2 2 0 9 0 2 4 0 5 2 0 8 6 6 6 0 7 2 0 4 6 1 4 7 6 0 4 2 0 4 8 1 5 2 0 8 7 6 5 8 2 1 1 2 0 2 6? 6 5 2 0 5 0 2 0 8 5 4 9 4 0 7 6 4 2 0 5 1 5 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 4 2 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 5 0 2 2 6 1 6 7 6 5 6 0 4 5 7 5 0 9 4 7 1 2 8 5 4 4 7 6 0 9 2 1 0 9 7 6 5 1 5 0 2 0 9 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 1 7 5 0 4 6 5 0 8 6 7 8 4 1 5 0 7 2 0 4 2 9 4 2 4 7 4 2 0 0^. 0 7 2 0 1 5 4 7 4 2 0 2 6 7 6 1 7 2 2 6 6 1 5 0 7 2 0 7 0 9 0 4 1 1 5 7 2 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 4 0 9 8 6 5 4 0 4 4 2 0 9 7 6 7 6 8 6 5 5 7 2 0 7 2 0 3 0 1 0 4 6 0 3 7 4 1 2 6 0 0^. 0 4 2 0 9 7 2 1 2 4 6 3 2 0 4 4 6 3 4 1 2 7 4 0 4 5 7 5 0 2 4 0 6 0 9 0 5 2 0 4 1 6 7 4 0 7 4 0 7 2 7 6 0 9 0 5 9 5 7 1 1 6 2 1 4 0 4 0 2 4 6 0 7 2 8 5 0 9 0 4 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 8 5 2 2 6 8 2? 0 4 0 6 0 2 4 7 6 0 4 4 4 0 4 2 8 6 7 4 0 0^. 0 2 0 9 5 2 4 0 3 1 5 7 4 0 7 6 4 0 1 7 4 1 4 3 4 2 5 0 7 6 0 3 1 6 6 7 4 4 2 0 5 5 3 2 1 6 3 6 6 7 5 4 6 7 2 0 9 2 1 0 2 0 9 0 3 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 5 2 4 0 7 2 5 5 4 1 1 4 0 5 0 2 0 5 9 6 7 4 0 7 6 0 5 1 5 2 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 5 9 5 3 4 2 4 7 0 7 6 0 3 4 1 5 0 6 0 9 0 5 4 6 1 4 0 5 6 7 6 0 7 6 4 4 0 4 1 1 5 7 2 1 4 0 2 6 0 4 4 8 1 6 2 0 8 4 5 2 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 6 0 9 0 3 5 7 0^. 6 0 1 6 2 9 5 7 4 4 2 2 4 0 9 0 7 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 7 4 4 0 5 2 3 6 7 0 7 2 5 0 4 6 0 5 5 6 0 5 1 4 1 6 0 9 8 6 5 6 0 3 4 7 4 5 3 6 2 0 3 4 3 4 2 4 7 7 4 0 0^. 0 1 2 1 4 0 7 6 5 2 5 1 6 6 1 2 4 0 1 5 4 0 9 0 4 7 0 6 3 1 5 2 5 6 6 2 5 4 6 3 1 2 6 2 5 0 3 8 0^. 7 8 3 8 7 0^. 3 8 3 7
Decryption
# R94: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R94 042r.jpg (889 items, -1.83/item) zconlocasioneinuitato[01.]braaragionamentoip[RE]faciaalcunauoltapuzoopra[QUEL]materiedigiurisditione[NOSTRO SIGNORE]uole[CHE]nallericaliberagemptumeintendediretocadeisuoipriuilegianti[CHE]masibennrianuareliabtsicresciutimenoi[PER]colpareaisuoiministrilifpaisiinternonloroparticolarepiupresto[CHE][PER]altroanocercatoriampliarliriusarliindnurimentodi[QUELLO]autorita[CHE]lpcnsallipredebesoridi[RE]legratieaipriuilegialegatidaloroi[QUESTO]poilteradadir[QUEL]oportunitaliaedic[QUI]li[RE]comincianiadellaliberlipoiafuoradeltrauagliorefuneralisogiungendoledipiu[CHE]fi[RE]siarisoluta[PER]operaresuoiministrispogliardegato[QUEL]santasededellautoritainalcunicas[CON][SUA SANTITA][SUA SANTITA][QUEL]fo[70.]ntemporalii[GERMANIA][QUELLO][CHE]dalsiferdisansonstatepcnsefaraognigagliardauitaresistentiatoaparefusionemsanguiniof[80.]rcfc[70.]fcfr
Reading
# R94 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [Rome, 7 November 1567] (Spagna 6/I/2, f. 42r) Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on f. 45r of the same file (`R94_decifrato_f45r.txt`), checked figure by figure against the key (`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R94_D1665_1665.txt 042r.jpg texts/R94_reading.md`): 157 of 167 words carried by the figures (94%). Where the decipherer and the figures differ the figures are followed (he wrote "apertamente" for libera+3060 "-mente", "S.S." for 1010 N.S., "questa materia" for "queste materie", "si rimette" for "si haverà", "et fatto" for "de fatto", "non ha forze" for "non con forze"; he skipped "et viva"). Date: the covering letter in clear, Rome 7 Nov 1567 (f. 44r), ends "Con questa un poco di cifra". Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [NNNN] unidentified code. ## Reading Con bona occasione, et invitato anchora dal ragionamento che S.M. faccia alcuna volta con V.S. sopra queste materie di giurisditione, N.S. vuole ch'ella le dica liberamente che N.S. non intende di revocare i suoi privilegii antichi, ma sì bene di levare li abusi cresciuti in essi per colpa delli suoi ministri, li quali per interesse loro particolare più presto che per altro hanno cercato di ampliarli et di usarli in detrimento di quella autorità che ha concesso alli predecessori di S.M. le gratie et li privilegii allegati da loro. Ma questo si haverà da dire con opportunità, come le dico, […] S.M. comincia […] alla libera, et che sia fuora del travaglio de' funerali; soggiungendole di più che, quando S.M. sia risoluta per opera de' suoi ministri spogliar de fatto questa santa Sede della autorità in alcuni casi, che N.S. non con forze temporali, ma con quelle che dal Signor Dio le son state concesse, farà ogni gagliarda et viva resistentia usque ad effusionem sanguinis. ## Notes on the figures - "anchora": figures 0 1^. 0 8 (a dotted group and one figure); the decipherer's word kept. - "antichi": written anti + 2 0 9 (the code for "che" used as a syllable). - "concesso": 9 8 6 5 (con-ce-s), the last vowel not enciphered. - "come le dico": 4040 2 4 6 7 2 8 5; the decipherer read "come le dica". 4040 is "Milano" in R95's decipherment, so "come" here rests on this decipherment only. - First gap: 9 0 4 0 2 0 before 3010 (S.M.); the decipherer left dots here too. - Second gap: 6 2 4 7 6 after "comincia" (letters e/n i/m a/l d/r e/n); the decipherer wrote "negare", then "giovare" above; neither fits the figures. - "forze": 3 5 7 0^. 6 — the dotted zero is z (also "terzo", "patienza", "senza" in R101). - "usque": 1 5 4 0 9 0; the Latin formula from the decipherment.
Translation
# R94 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher of [7 November 1567]) Taking a good occasion, and invited also by the talk His Majesty sometimes has with Your Lordship on these matters of jurisdiction, His Holiness wishes you to tell him freely that His Holiness does not intend to revoke his ancient privileges, but rather to remove the abuses that have grown up in them through the fault of his ministers, who, for their own private interest more than for anything else, have tried to enlarge them and to use them to the detriment of that authority which granted His Majesty's predecessors the graces and privileges they allege. But this will have to be said at a suitable moment, as I tell you, […] His Majesty begins […] freely, and is out of the trouble of the funerals; adding further that, should His Majesty be resolved, through his ministers, to strip this Holy See in fact of its authority in some cases, His Holiness — not with temporal forces but with those the Lord God has granted him — will put up every strong and lively resistance, even to the shedding of blood.
R95 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 3, f. 055r (DECODE R95), unknown)
The French ambassador's claim about raising troops in the State of Milan would give the King cause to withdraw his protection; the crusade alms: the Pope acted so that Christian discipline should not slacken in Spain, not to deny the indulgence, and will grant a new concession; he grieves more for the King's soul than for any human respect; the nuncio is to speak in this sense.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/3 #IMAGE NAME: 055r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: TimB #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: January 28, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 30 mins #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: speech recognition (Google Docs). #IMAGE NAME: 055r.jpg 7 2 5 9 5 6 7 6 6 7 5 0 9 2 1 0 9 4 7 1 2 8 5 4 4 7 3 0 6 0 4 4 6 0 1 0 4 0 5 1 6 0 7 6 4 0 2 6 5 6 0 9 4 5 4 1 5 0 4 6 0 7 2 8 5 0 2 0 9 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 6 3 1 5 6 0 1 6 7 5 0 7 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 7 0 7 0 6 0 5 0 7? 6 0 7 6 1 5 2 6 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 0 2 6 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 0 7 2 0 9 5 1 6 7 0 3 4 7 0 3 6 6 1 6 0 2 6 4 5 0 5 1 4 1 5 0 7 2 4 0 4 0 2 6 0 8 4 5 5 0 2 0 9 0 1 6 6 2 5 6 0 5 3 6 5 5 0 7 2 0 3 0 9 0 7 4 7 2 4 0 3 2 1 5 1 4 0 8 4 1 5 4 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 7 2 0 4 4 5 4 7 6 0 4 4 0 9 7 5 1 6 1 2 5 6 6 0 5 1 4 0 0^. 0 7 2 0 1 6 6 6 7 6 0 6 1 2 4 2 7 2 5 0 5 7 6 3 6 5 0 9 0 6 5 5 0 6 0 5 0 5 9 4 7 3 6 6 7 5 0 5 2 2 2 4 2 0 3 4 4 5 2 1 4 0 5 7 4 0 3^. 0 8 4 4 4 0 8^. 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 6 0 4 4 0 7 6 1 5 8 5 0 4^. 0 8 0 7 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 7 6 5 6 7 5 0 4 4 0 6 4 6 2 5 5 2 6 4 0 2 0 6 0 4 1 6 5 6 7 5 0 7 4 0 3 1 4 7 4 3 6 4 7 6 0 4 4 0 2 6 7 1 4 3 6 6 1 2 4 0 2 4 4^. 0 8 0 4 4 0 7 2 5 8 2 9 4 2 6 4 0 8 7 2 5 1 2 4 6 4 0 2 0 6 0 5 2 0 7 6 4 4 5 4 5 6 0 2 6 2 0 5 0 4 0 2 0 6 0 4 1 6 6 1 1 5 0 4 4 1 7 5 1 6 0 2 4 0 1 0 1 0 5 2 0 9 1 6 6 1 4 0 7 2 0 3 4 7 3 4 2 6 6 6 0 6 5 1 4 0 9 8 6 5 2 5 6 6 0 2 6 0 7 0 9 0 2 5 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 5 0 2 0 9 5 8 2 6 6 1 2 4 5 1 4 0 9 1 5 0 3 4 7 6 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 3 7 4 4 7 6 0 2 6 5 1 4 6 1 2 4 0 3 4 1 4 4 6 0 7 4 4 3^. 0 6 0 2 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 6 6 4 0 5 3 2 8 2 5 0 2 0 9 0 3 6 7 6 0 5 5 9 7 4 0 6 0 9 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 2 0 6 0 4 4 5 8 2 5 0 7 6 0 7 2 7 6 0 2 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 5 2 0 5 4 7 2 4 0 4 4 2 6 6 4 1 5 0 7 4 6 0 9 0 5 4 6 1 4 0 5 6 7 6 0 2 4 0 2 0 9 0 3 0 2 0 5 1 8 6 7 6 5 6 0 6 6 0 7 5 4 6 7 2 4 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 9 2 1 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 9 6 7 7 2 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 3 4 7 2 4 0 3 0 1 0 7 6 4 4 0 4 6 2 2 4 0 5 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 5 0 2 4 4 1 7 5 0 7 2 5 9 6 1 5 0 1 2 4 6 5 0 0^. 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 5 6 6 5 5 0 2 6 7 6 2 5 0 1 0 9 0 4 1 6 7 4 0 7 4 9 4 7 4 4 7 6 0 5 6 2 9 7 6 0 2 0 9 0 7 2 0 8 2 5 0 6 6 0 5 6 6 1 4 0 1 6 6 6 7 0 9 7 5 9 5 5 2 1 5 0 3 7 8 3 7
Decryption
# R95: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R95 055r.jpg (922 items, -1.78/item) dispondendopiuparticolargelantastereainonpasatoledico[CHE]fiinfuonuero[QUELLO][CHE]rdeoderetoinmateriainmateriadipoterfargentemelostatodilaincaso[CHE]uenionsgesorigpradiagiustacatoal[RE]dilasarealprotetionestadiuenereetiamdiosdegnopesonospargendosimilifalsiuaora[03.]cala[08.]mut[NON]laretscs[04.]c[QUELLO][CHE]desersaleaniosina[NON]aueseroraguadagnadellindulgentiam[44.]clarisciplinacristiana[NON]sidellolonieioa[NON]auenutoaltroueiltuomzuentadifarglieneestapcnsionein[QUELLO]modo[CHE][PER]pocientiasuapuofare[PER]lafraldeinstantiafatalera[43.]ni[SUA MAESTA]pannelogicio[CHE]fedesopra[QUEL]materia[NON]lasciodedire[CHE][RE]sisariaalienatoda[QUEL]santasedema[CHE]gioubernonneroledila[NOSTRO SIGNORE]piu[PER]laperrita[CHE]faril[RE]dellanimasta[CHE]sialtrorispetoumanoin[QUEL]sensoinreistpateradaparlaresempre[CHE]dicionesentatenerpropositofrcfr
Reading
# R95 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [early 1568] (Spagna 6/I/3, f. 55r) Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on f. 58r of the same file (`R95_decifrato_f58r.txt`), read with the figures (`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R95_D1666_1666.txt 055r.jpg texts/R95_reading.md`). The decipherment is a fast draft; where it is illegible or differs, the figures decide (e.g. "si contenta" 5 2 9 1 6 6 1 4 for his "si offerse", "nova concessione" for his "nuova [..]", "lasciò" for "lascia", "ne doleria" for "ne dolerebbe", "ne senta" for "ne sentirà"). Codes first glossed by this decipherment: 1040 lettere (Lasry: "Regina di Francia?"), 3020 quando, 4040 Milano, 4020 come, 6050 Imbasciatore, 7070 [with 6050: "l'Imbasciatore di Francia"], 8 0 9 0 havere is from R101; dotted 4 + 8 = perché (twice). Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [NN.] dotted group not identified. ## Reading Rispondendo più particolarmente alle lettere sue del mese passato, le dico che, quando non fusse vero quello che l'Imbasciatore di Francia ha detto in materia di poter far gente in lo stato di Milano in caso che venisse offeso di qua, daria giusta causa al Re di lassare la protettione sua et di venire etiam di sdegno con esso Imbasciatore, spargendo simili falsità. Hora quanto alla [08.], N.S. non l'ha detto co[…] perché quelli che desero la elemosina non havessero da guadagnare la indulgentia, ma perché la disciplina cristiana non si relasasse in Spagna, come n'è avvenuto altrove; ma N.S. si contenta di farglierne nova concessione in quello modo che per conscientia sua può fare, per la grande instantia fatta [an] dal […], il quale nel officio che [?fece] sopra questa materia non lasciò di dire che il Re si saria alienato da questa santa Sede; ma che, quando succedesse, ne doleria a N.S. più per la perdita che faria il Re dell'anima sua che per altro rispetto humano. Et in questo senso medemo V.S. haverà da parlare sempre che di ciò ne senta tener proposito. ## Notes on the figures - "materia" is enciphered twice (2 6 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 twice: "in materia in materia"), a clerk's repeat; left out above. - "l'Imbasciatore di Francia ha detto": 7070 6050 7? 6 7 6 1 5; the decipherer's words; the figure read 7? by the DECODE transcriber stands where "ha" is. - "[08.]": the decipherer wrote a sign like "4ta" (the crusade bull, "Cruciata"?); not settled. - "co[…]": 8 5 after "detto"; the decipherer's word here is illegible. - "relasasse": 7 6 4 4 5 4 5 6 (relasase); decipherer "[ri]lassata"(?). - "come n'è avvenuto": figures 4020 2060 avvenuto (2060 is "non" elsewhere); the decipherer's "n'è" kept. - "fatta [an] dal […]": 4 6 7 4 4 then the dotted group 3^. and 6; a person (the decipherer's word is unread). - "[?fece]": figures 3 6 7 6 (f/g e/n d/r e/n: "fede"); the decipherer's word is unread.
Translation
# R95 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher of early 1568) Answering your letters of last month more particularly, I tell you that, were what the French Ambassador has said not true — about being able to raise troops in the State of Milan in case it were attacked from here — it would give the King just cause to give up his protection and even to become indignant with that Ambassador, who spreads such falsehoods. Now as to the [08.: the Crusade?], His Holiness did not say it […] so that those who gave the alms should not gain the indulgence, but so that Christian discipline should not slacken in Spain, as has happened elsewhere; but His Holiness is content to grant him a new concession of it in such manner as his conscience allows, at the great instance made [an] by […], who in the office he [?performed] on this matter did not fail to say that the King would become estranged from this Holy See; but that, if that happened, His Holiness would grieve more for the loss the King would make of his soul than for any other human consideration. And in this same sense Your Lordship is to speak whenever you hear the subject raised.
R96 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 4, f. 081r (DECODE R96), unknown)
Rome, 19 May 1568: the Pope awaits the answer on the Emperor-King of France marriage (hoping for a league of the three chief princes); Scipione [?Cuttinardo], charged as a heretic by the Holy Office, aspires to be Regent of the Collateral in Naples - the King to be told at once; difficulties over the order against the Jeronimites to be reported.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/4 #IMAGE NAME: 081r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: TimB #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: January 28, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 30 mins #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: speech recognition (Google Docs). #IMAGE NAME: 081r.jpg 1 0 1 0 4 5 9 6 1 4 0 7 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 7 6 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 7 2 5 9 5 5 1 4 0 7 4 0 1 0 9 0 5 5 9 7 4 0 2 4 9 4 7 1 2 8 5 4 4 7 6 0 7 6 4 0 2 4 1 7 2 2 5 6 2 5 0 1 7 4 0 2 0 1 0 0^. 0 4 0 1 0 7 2 0 2 0 9 4 2 0 6 6 0 5 8 7 2 5 2 0 6 0 9 0 7 2 0 9 4 5 4 1 2 0 5 0 2 2 0 9 0 6 4 4 0 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 5 6 5 5 9 7 4 0 7 2 0 8 2 5 0 2 4 0 5 6 6 5 5 0 7 2 0 2 0 1 0 3 2 1 7 2 8 4 6 7 5 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 9 5 6 0 5 0 2 0 5 5 7 1 6 0 5 2 0 9 8 4 1 7 6 5 6 0 9 5 1 7 2 4 0 3 4 8 2 4 3 0 6 0 5 9 6 7 4 7 5 2 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 8 5 6 4 0 1 6 2 5 6 6 0 5 0 4 6 3 4 0 1 7 4 0 6 0 9 0 1 7 6 0 9 7 2 6 8 2 9? 2 9 7 2 6 8 2 9 4 4 2 0 7 6 4 4 0 8 7 2 5 1 2 4 6 2 1 4 0 3 4 7 4 0 5 4 9 6 7 6 0 4 0 3 0 1 3 0 9 6 1 5 0 9 7 2 2 4 0 2 0 9 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 5 4 6 1 5 0 5 1? 3 2 1 2 5 0 6 0 2 6 7 2 1 2 4 1 5 5 8 2 9 2 5 6 6 0 8 1 1 2 6 4 7 2 5 0 5 0 2 0 6 7 6 1 2 8 5 0 2 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 5 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 5 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 4 5 9 2 7 4 0 7 2 0 1 0 2 0 7 6 3 6 6 1 6 0 8 5 4 4 1 6 7 4 4 6 0 0^. 0 5 0 2 0 1 0 2 4 5 0 8 0 2 0 7 2 0 2 5 4 1 4 0 2 2 9 5 7 1 4 6 0^. 4 0 4 0 2 0 6 4 4 0 1 6 7 6 0 2 0 6 0 2 4 6 2 0 9 7 6 0 7 2 7 4 5 0 5 1 8 2 1 5 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 6 0 6 5 2 6 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 9 7 3 9 3 8 7 3 5 6 0 6 6 4 4 0 6 5 6 8 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 7 2 0 7 0 9 0 5 7 7 2 6 6 0 9 1 7 4 0 4 2 0 6 7 6 2 2 1 4 0 7 2 0 5 4 6 0 2 6 7 5 6 2 2 5 0 4 1 6 5 6 0 9 1 7 4 5 1 5 0 5 0 7 2 3 2 8 1 4 1 4 0 4 4 8 1 6 4 0 7 5 9 5 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 9 0 4 1 6 7 4 0 3 4 1 6 0 4 6 0 7 2 4 2 3 6 6? 1 2 6 0 7 6 8 2 1 6 0 2 2 0 7 5 1 6 7 4 0 8 0 2 0 7 6 4 0 1 1 1 5 0 4 8 2 5 2 0 9 0 7 2 3 0 9 0 5 2 0 9 5 5 4 0 9 7 5 1 6 7 6 7 6 0 4 0 3 9 9? 1 5 0 5 4 7 4 0 6 6 8 6 5 4 7 2 5 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 0 0^. 3 7 9 3 8 3 7 9 8 3 7 0^. 9 8 3
Decryption
# R96: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R96 081r.jpg (826 items, -1.96/item) tuaspetarintendedefpa[CHE]rispostada[VOSTRA SIGNORIA]soprailparticolaredelmatrimoniotraitaud[CON]painesbris[NON]zdipasatisi[CHE]nlaintendesesopradicioilsensodiiugiudicandoutipse[PER]sortesipcludesepotriafaciagnoperarsigpa[CHE]conlunioneslegatra[QUEL]treprincipiprincipalidelacristianitafarloapere[SUA MAESTA]ufzetoprima[CHE]in[QUEL]santosufitionieriuiatoscipionectuinario[PER]edeuicoi[SUA MAESTA]panointende[QUI][CHE]aspirariumregentecolauerale[PER]uiaocidimoltaimporta[60.]llielauere[NON]manipredirlosubitoa[RE]innomeditufzrgpfbrgsenellesecutionedi[QUELLO]ordinepuralmedemitadisanieronimoltesepurasusodificultaalcunadopo[CHE]upaterafatelediligentiedebitemidoueracireauutoacio[CHE]rifpomposaprouedereagppuosaranecesarioin[QUEL]materiagdpfcfdzbg[70.]pbf
Reading
# R96 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [Rome, 19 May 1568] (Spagna 6/I/4, f. 81r): reading
Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on the slip bound as f. 80 of the same file (`R96_decifrato_f80r.txt`, DECODE
cleartext image DOC_R96_D1255), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), checked figure by figure against the key
(`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R96_D1667_1667.txt 081r.jpg texts/R96_reading.md`). Date: the covering
letter in clear, Rome 19 May 1568 (f. 79r, DOC_R96_D1254), ends "Con questa sarà un poco di cifra".
Where the decipherer and the figures differ the figures are followed (notes below): 1010 N.S. for his "S.S.";
"d'intendere"; "li ne scrissi" for "le ne"; 2010 (the Emperor) for his "Re Catholico" in line 3; "che in questo" for
"et in questo"; "aspira" for his "appresso"; 1020 "esser" (twice) where he wrote "ottener" and "questo"; "non manchi de
dirlo" for "ne mandi a dirlo"; "contrasto" for his doubtful word; "mi doverà [dare] avviso" for "ne darà avviso";
"provedere a [?quanto] sarà" for "fare le debite provisioni a quello che". New code values: 2010 Imperatore (his
"Imp.re"; R93 "Imper.re"), 4010 Re di Francia (Lasry: "Sua Santità"), 1020 essere (Lasry: "Sua Santità").
Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied.
## Reading
N.S. aspetta d'intendere qualche risposta da V.S. sopra il particolare del matrimonio tra Imperatore et Re di
Francia, di che li ne scrissi questi di passati perché ella intendesse sopra di ciò il senso di Imperatore,
giudicando N.S. che se per sorte si concludesse potria facilmente sperarsi qualche bona unione o lega tra questi tre
principi principali della Christianità. Farà sapere a Re quanto prima che in questo Santo Offitio è inditiato Scipione
[?Cuttinardo] per eretico, il quale s'intende qui che aspira di esser Regente collaterale; et per esser lo avviso di
molta importanza, come ella vede, non manchi de dirlo subito a Re in nome di N.S.
Se nella esecutione di quello ordine contra li heremit[i] di San Ieronimo havesse contrasto o difficultà alcuna,
doppo che V.S. haverà fatte le diligentie debite mi doverà [dare] avviso del tutto, acciò che di qua si possa
provedere a [?quanto] sarà necessario in questa materia.
## Notes on the figures
- "N.S.": 1 0 1 0 (the decipherer "S.S."). "d'intendere": 0 7 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 7 6.
- "tra l'Imperatore et Re di Francia": 1 7 4 | 0 2 0 1 0 | 0^.0 | 0 4 0 1 0. The decipherer: "tra l'Imp.re et Re di
Fran.a". 4010 is "Re di Francia" here and in R93 ("al Re di Francia" = 4 0 4010), not Lasry's "Sua Santità".
- "li ne scrissi": 4 2 0 6 6 0 5 8 7 2 5 2 (2 = i/m; the decipherer "le ne").
- "il senso di Imperatore" (the code carries no article; so "tra Imperatore"): 5 6 6 5 5 0 7 2 0 2 0 1 0. The decipherer wrote "di Re cat." here; the figures carry
the same code 2010 as in the first line, so the reading follows them.
- "Farà sapere a Re": 3 4 7 4 0 5 4 9 6 7 6 0 4 0 3 0 1 (301 = 3010).
- "che in questo Santo Offitio": 0 2 0 9 0 2 6 0 6090 5 4 6 1 5 0 5 1? 3 2 1 2 5 (the decipherer "et in questo").
- "Scipione [?Cuttinardo]": 5 8 2 9 2 5 6 6 | 0 8 1 1 2 6 4 7 2 5 (b|c t|u t|u i|m e|n a|l r|d i|m o|s); the
decipherer's surname ("Cu…ardo"/"…arcio") is not clear in his hand; one consistent letter choice given.
- "aspira di esser Regente collaterale": 2 0 9 0 4 5 9 2 7 4 0 7 2 0 1 0 2 0 7 6 3 6 6 1 6 0 8 5 4 4 1 6 7 4 4 6.
The decipherer read "et appresso di ottener Regente collaterale"; 1020 "esser" also fits the next sentence.
- "et per esser lo avviso": 0^.0 5 0 2 0 1 0 2 4 5 0 8020 (5020 per, 102 = 1020 written X0Y).
- "non manchi de dirlo subito a Re": 2 0 6 0 2 4 6 2 0 9 7 6 0 7 2 7 4 5 0 5 1 8 2 1 5 0 4 0 3010 (209 = "chi").
- After "in nome di N.S." (7 2 0 1 0 1 0) the line ends in filler 3 9 7 3 9 3 8 7 3; the second paragraph follows.
- "heremit[i]": 6 7 6 2 2 1 4 (final a/l); "San Ieronimo": 5 4 6 0 2 6 7 5 6 2 2 5.
- "havesse contrasto o difficultà": 4 1 6 5 6 0 9 1 7 4 5 1 5 0 5 0 7 2 3 2 8 1 4 1 4 (9 = con).
- "mi doverà [dare] avviso": 2 2 0 7 5 1 6 7 4 0 8020; no figures for "dare".
- "provedere a [?quanto] sarà necessario": 0 9 7 5 1 6 7 6 7 6 0 4 0 3 9 9? 1 5 0 5 4 7 4 0 6 6 8 6 5 4 7 2 5; the
group "3 9 9̂ 1 5" (a mark over the second 9 on the image) is read as quanto (309 6 1 5) only by sense.Translation
# R96 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher of Rome, 19 May 1568) Same holes as R96_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. His Holiness waits to hear some answer from Your Lordship on the particular of the marriage between the Emperor and the King of France, about which I wrote to you in the last few days so that you might learn the Emperor's view of it, His Holiness judging that if by chance it were concluded, one could easily hope for some good union or league among these three chief princes of Christendom. You will let the King know as soon as possible that in this Holy Office Scipione [?Cuttinardo] has been charged as a heretic, who, it is understood here, aspires to be Regent of the Collateral [Council of Naples]; and as the news is of great importance, as you see, do not fail to tell it to the King at once in His Holiness's name. If in the execution of that order against the Hermits of St Jerome there should be opposition or any difficulty, once Your Lordship has made the proper inquiries you must [give] me notice of everything, so that from here provision can be made for [?whatever] will be needed in this matter.
R97 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 5, f. 088r-089v (DECODE R97), unknown)
The Duke of Ferrara, displeased over the Bolognese exiles (Cavaliere Gualengo), may complain to the King through Count Ercole Tassone; the Pope's case under the investiture. The French ambassador in Constantinople offers to join Huguenots and Protestants with the Turks; in Adrianople he urged Piali Pasha to bring the fleet against Rome; his removal is to be sought.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/5 #IMAGE NAME: 088r.jpg- #TRANSCRIBER NAME: TimB #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: January 31, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 30+15+30+15=90 mins #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: speech recognition (Google Docs). #COMMENTS: paper is damaged in many places. These images might split into 2 ciphers #IMAGE NAME: 088r.jpg 5 2 0 6 0 2 6 1 6 5 5 0 5 0 2 0 8 5 5 4 0 8 6 7 1 4 0 2 0 9 4 0 6 0 5 0 5 0 2 0 2 4 4 4 0 5 4 1 2 5 3 4 1 2 5 6 6 0 2 0 9 0 4 8 2 4 0 3 5 7 5 6 0 5 6 6 1 2 1 5 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 6 0 1 6 0 6 6 3 5 1 2 5 0 7 6 0 3 1 5 7 1 5 8 2 1 2 0 7 6 4 0 9 1 4 7 5 0 7 2 0 8 5 4 5 3 6 4 0 1 7 4 1 4 1 5 0 5 0 9 0 2 6 0 5 1 5 0 6 5 2 6 0 7 4 4 8 4 1 4 4 2 6 7 0 3 1 4 4 6 6 3 5 0 4 0 7 2 5 6 3 6 4 1 5 0 3 4 7 6 6 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 7 2 5 6 6 1 2 2 6 6 1 5 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 0^. 0 1 6 6 6 6 7 5 0 4 8 5 1 6 5 1 4 0 8 5 7 1 6 0 2 4 0 9 1? 6 0 6 7 8 5 4 6 1 4 5 5 6 6 0 4 1 6 7 4 0 3 4 8 2 4 3 0 6 0 9 4 7 1 2 8 5 4 4 7 6 0 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 6 0 7 2 0 9 4 7 4 4 7 4 6 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 0 2 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 5 3 2 1 2 5 0 2 0 6 0 7 5 1 6 7 2 4 1 0 2 0 3 4 1 5 0 7 4 0 6 5 5 0 6 0 5 0 9 5 2 7 6 7 4 1 4 0 4 4 3 6 1 2 5 6 6 0 9 4 1 6 7 6 4 2 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 4 6 0 9 5 7 1 4 0 0^. 0 2 4 0 9 5 8 5 0 7 2 5 9 6 1 5 0 2 0 9 0 7 4 4 4 0 9 4 7 1 6 0 5 1 4 5 2 0 4 0 4 0 6 0 9 0 5 4 6 1 4 0 5 6 7 6 0 7 6 4 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 6 5 5 0 6 0 5 0 2 0 3 6 1 7 4 1 4 7 2 5 2 0 6 0 5 5 6 7 1 4 6 7 5 0 4 6 0 8 4 9 2 1 1 4 4 1 2 5 6 2 0 7 6 4 4 0 5 1 4 0 2 6 1 6 5 1 2 1 1 7 4 0^. 2 6 0 5 9 6 1 2 6 0 1 6 4 0 2 0 9 0 4 5 8 4 2 3 4 0 4 0 7 6 6 7 6 7 6 0 4 2 0 3 1 5 7 1 5 8 2 1 2 7 2 0 6 0 9 0 5 1 4 1 5 0 5 3 6 2 0 1 5 4 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 3 4 2 0 5 2 6 6 5 0 7 2 2 4 6 7 4 1 2 2 6 0 2 0 9 0 5 0 1 5 4 1 1 5 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 9 0 5 4 9 2 4 0 4 8 2 5 2 0 9 0 5 6 0 6 6 0 5 6 6 1 2 5 6 7 4 3 2 5 6 4 7 6 0 9 5 5 4 0 7 2 7 6 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 9 0 5 2 4 0 9 1 6 6 1 4 0 7 2 0 5 6 7 1 4 7 6 1 6 4 0 5 7 6 2 0 9 4 0 5 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 5 2 0 3 2 1 5 1 2 3 2 8 4 7 4 0 7 2 #IMAGE NAME: 088v.jpg #COMMENTS: end of cipher? 2 4 6 2 6 7 4 0 2 0 9 0 2 0 6 0 7 1 8 2 1 4 0 7 2 0 3 4 7 6 6 0 7 6 5 1 4? 7 0? 8 4 9 4 8 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 2 9 7 2 6 8 2 9 2 0 8 2 5 5 3 6 4 6 7 5 0 5 6 6 1 2 1? 6 0 2 0 9 0 4 8? 2 4 6 5 0 4 6 0 5 1 6 0 7 4 3 2 5 6 2 2 4 0 5 6 0 2 0 6 0 5 6 6 1 2 7 4 0 9? 4 7 4 4 7 6 6 0 2 0 6 0 4 8 4 7 6 7 4 0 3 4 7 6 6 0 5 3 2 8 2 5 4 4 8 1 6 5 0 0^. 0 5 1 4? 7 4 0 5 0 2 5 0 4 1 6 7 1 ? 1 4 0 2 6 6 1 7 6 0 2 4 0 5 5 9 7 4 7 6 1 5 0 5 2 8^3? 6 7 2 6^4? 7 4 0 2 6 0 8 3? 7 1 6 0 0^. 0 2 2 0 4 1 2 5 6 7 4 0 2 4 0 5 1 8 6 5 5 0 7 2 0 2 4 6 5 0 2 6 0 2 4 6 5 0 3 8 9 3 8 7 9 3 7 3 9 8 #IMAGE NAME: 089r.jpg #COMMENTS: new cipher? 5 4 7 2 4 0 7 4 0 1 6 7 6 7 6 0 5 0 2 0 2 6 0^. 5 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 9 0 5 2 0 4 6 1 4 5 6 0 7 2 0 4 0 6 4 . 4 0 9 4 0 2 4 4 0 7 0 7 0 2 0 9 0 6 0 4 4 0 2 6 0 6 5 2 6 0 7 2 0 4 0 1 0 2 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 3 4 0 1 4 6 1 2 8 4 1 2 1 2 0 5 3 2 8 2 2 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 8 7 2 5 1 2 4 6 2 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 5 6 5 2 0 9 9 5 7 1 4 0 2 5 4 1 5 0 2 6 1 6 0 9 6 7 2 8 5 4 5 0 5 2 0 4 0 2 0 5 3 6 7 2 ? 3 6 0 7 2 0 1 6 2 7 6 0 4 2 0 8 0 7 0 2 6 5 2 6 2 6 0 9 0 4 2 0 9 7 5 1 6 5 1 4 6 1 2 0 2 6 0 1 6 4 0 4 6 3 4 0 9 0 1 1 7 2 0 9 0 5 0 2 0 4 5 4 4 1 4 7 6 0 9 0 4 5 6 7 2 4 7 6 0 7 4 0 1 1 1 6 0 4 6 0 8 4 6 7 6 0 4 4 0 9 5 1 6 7 4 0 8 7 2 5 1 2 4 6 2 1 4 0 0^. 5 0 2 0 5 1 4 8 2 4 2 2 6 6 1 5 0 7 2 0 7 6 1 4 0 4 6 3 4 0 4 3 6 7 2 4 0 2 0 9 0 9 7 6 5 1 5 0 5 4 7 4 6 5 0 2 6 0 9 5 1 4 6 1 2 6 5 9 5 4 2 0 7 0 7 2 0 7 6 4 0 3^. 0 4 0 0^. 0 7 6 4 2 0 9 7 5 1 6 5 1 4 6 1 2 0 9 7 5 2 6 1 6 6 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 7 5 9 5 0 2 0 9 0 5 4 7 4 0 7 1 2 6 4 1 5 0 0^. 0 7 6 5 1 7 1 1 5 0 5 3 6 2 0 8 5 5 4 0 5 2 0 1 6 2 7 4 6 5 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 6 5 2 6 2 6 0 0^. 0 5 4 7 4 6 5 0 1 1 1 2 0 7 2 0 1 6 4 0 3 6 7 6 0 9 0 4 2 0 1 1 7 2 0 9 0 2 4 0 3 0 9 4 0 7 2 5 8 5 7 5 5 0 5 6 0 8 6 6 4 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 4 4 1 7 5 0 1 6 2 9 5 0 4 1 6 7 2 4 0 7 4 1 5 0 7 4 0 7 2 7 6 7 6 0 5 7 4 6 2 5 4 1 5 0 7 4 0 1 6 2 6 7 6 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 1 7 4 1 4 3 4 2 4 1 4 0 8 7 2 5 1 2 4 6 2 1 4 5 2 0 2 0 9 0 4 6 1 4 6 7 5 5 2 0 7 2 0 4 4 0 8 5 5 2 0 8 4 1 2 1 5 0 2 6 5 1 7 1 2 6 6 1 5 5 4 1 7 4 0 2 0 9 0 4 0 1 0 2 5 5 1 7 6 7 2 4 0 2 0 9 0 6 0 9 0 5 3 2 8 2 0 2 0 6 0 5 5 6 5 3 4 1 2 0 7 2 0 5 1 5 0 9 5 6 6 5 5 0 5 2 0 3 4 7 2 4 0 4 6 8 5 7 4 0 3 2 5 1 4 2 6 6 1 5 #IMAGE NAME: 089v.jpg 2 0 6 0 9 2 8 5 4 5 0 4 4 6 0 8 5 5 6 0 7 6 4 4 0 8 7 2 5 1 2 4 6 2 1 4 0 0^. 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 1 7 4 0 1 2 4 5 6 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 0 5 2 2 2 6^4? 3 0 6 0 2 0 9 0 2 6 0 4 6 7 7 2 6 5 9 5 4 2 0 4 5 0 7 0 7 0 4 0 1 0 4 0 3 4 1 5 0 9? 0 9 2 4 4 2 0 8 4 5 8 2 4 0 0^. 0 3 6 6 6 7 4 4 6 0 7 6 4 0 2 4 7 6 0 2 5 4 1 2 2 4 4 2 0 5 3 2 8 2 2 0 0^. 0 9 1 7 4 0 1 0 1 0 0^. 0 9 1 7 4 0 2 0 1 0 0^. 0 9 1 7 4 0 4 4 0 3 0 5 6 5 5 7 1 4 6 7 5 4 5 0 4 0 9 7 5 8 1 7 4 7 6 0 7 4 4 0 5 2 3 6 5 7 6 0 7 2 0 1 6 6 2 7 6 0 9 0 3 7 4 6 7 2 5 2 2 4 0 4 7 2 4 1 4 0 4 0 9 7 6 5 8 1 9 4 7 6 0 7 5 2 4 0 0^. 0 1 0 1 0 0^. 0 6 0 9 0 4 0 3 4 1 5 0 2 0 6 0 5 5 6^4? 5 0 4 0 2 0 7 0 7 0 1 0 5 0 2 4 0 4 6 2 0 9 0 7 6 0 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 6 0 7 6 4 2 9 7 2 6 8 2 9 2 0 9 7 5 1 6 5 1 4 6 1 2 0 9 7 5 2 6 1 6 6 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 9 7 6 5 1 5 0 5 4 7 2 4 6 5 4 4 0 5 2 2 6 2 0 5 0 7 0 7 2 0 7 4 0 4 5 7 0 9 4 7 1 6 0 0^. 0 5 3 6 7 6 6 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 2 6 0 3 0 5 3 4 8 2 4 3 0 6 0 0^. 0 9 7 6 5 1 5 0 5 2 0 2 4 6 7 6 7 2 4 6 5 0 2 6 3 2 6 2 1 2 0 8 0 7 0 4 0 8 5 7 5 2 9 6 7 6 0 4 2 0 4 6 2 2 2 0 7 6 4 2 0 3 0 5 6 2 0 7 3 8 0^. 3 8 7 9 3?? 8 9 3 8 3 7
Decryption
# R97: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R97 088r.jpg (810 items, -1.77/item) o[NON]inteso[PER]cosacertampano[PER]ialasatisfatione[CHE]aciaforsesentiusdittintenegotiorefuoruscitidelptadodibolognatrauato[QUI]insuonomedalcaualierfullengoadisegnatofarnefpa[CHE]risentiment[QUI]fuuenneroacotestacorteilzunercoleuassenauerafacilgeparticolarecomisionediparlarlein[QUEL]materiam[SUA MAESTA]panofitio[NON]douediluifauoraesonopoideratalagetisenzauerna[CHE]tuleportailpocodispnto[CHE]dalapartestasiaa[QUEL]santasederea[SUA MAESTA]pannose[PER]feudatario[NON]oseruandolecapitulationidelasuainuestitud[40.]iespetietna[CHE]lobligaarenderelifuoruscitidi[QUEL]statoogniuolta[CHE]glisienodimandatiin[CHE]suoluto[CHE]upoapialbis[CHE]senesentioeragionareposaridel[RE][CHE]silzuentariseruareunasdempa[PER]tua[SUA MAESTA]panoigiustificaradi == R97 088v.jpg (276 items, -2.00/item) maniera[CHE][NON]dubitadifarendestarcapacitutiliprincipibisognandosentiue[CHE]abianolesueragionimase[NON]sentidaparlaree[NON]acaredafarnesficioalcunostarasmoauedu?tamentreilsoprareussicferinarliebgrunimationdailsubesorimanoinmansfcpgcrpfdfzc == R97 089r.jpg (790 items, -1.77/item) sariadaueredesim[60.]oditu[CHE]sileuaseriaea?lzamaaddi[QUESTA]llinnomedilui[SUA MAESTA]paefatanticatiuioficii[PER]lacristianita[CHE]sesipportamoltoinunpericolosiamofedi?gnriunidelibrinomni[QUEL]liprotestantiinunaleg[GERMANIA]tur[CHE][PER]loaltar[QUEL]loedilredatutelebandelapoueracristianita[PER]stabilimentodireualeflagerma[CHE]prestosaranoinpotantinopolidrirel[03.]areliprotestantiprometendo[CHE]dopo[CHE]sararuinatodestrutoognicosasiunidanotutiinsiemesaranotutidiunagnr[QUEL]litur[CHE]i[SUA MAESTA]pariscorsosebenafpa[CHE]altrotempoaueriadatodadiredeoraemoltodaunmedesialtrauagliauacristianitasi[CHE]leuandosidilacosicatiusinstrumentooltra[CHE][SUA SANTITA]mostreria[CHE][QUEL]ogici[NON]sonofatiristoponesosifariaancoragiouamento == R97 089v.jpg (529 items, -1.91/item) [NON]picoloalecosedelacristianita[PER]latratiaseintendesimmelfe[CHE]inandrinopolilodrauagatoppiaambasciageneraledelmaremoltimalioficiipur[SUA SANTITA]tzudamuptdaalfonsortandoloaprocuraredalsignorediuenir[QUEL]grandisimaarmatalprescuparersiattepagato[NON]sonloaidd[FRANCIA]maan[CHE]decomisionedeliprincipiprotestantiprometendo[CHE]prestosarianolaominiordiralorpartesgedendo[CHE]megofacilgeprestosimandermanoinfiniticracorsiperelianimideligoemdf[80.]fbdpgcpgcfr
Reading
# R97 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [Rome, 1568] (Spagna 6/I/5, ff. 88r–89v): reading Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on the leaf bound after the cipher (`R97_decifrato_f90.txt`, DECODE cleartext images DOC_R97_D1264 = f. 90r and DOC_R97_D1265 = f. 90v), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), and on the figures, read word by word against it (`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R97_D1668_1668.txt all texts/R97_reading.md`; the four pages run together). The decipherer's draft is fast and often loose; where it and the figures differ the figures are followed, and several places he left blank or guessed are read from the figures (notes below): "il conte Ercole Tasone" (he left dots), "riservare una orechia per N.S." (2 0 9 = "chi" as a syllable), "mette pericolo", "con Turchi" (1 1 7 + 2 0 9), "Piali Bascià", "esortandolo a procurare … a preocupare Roma", "da lor parte". Code values from this letter: 7070 Imbasciatore (with a following 2 = the plural "-i"), 4010 Re di Francia (as in R93 and R96; Lasry's "Sua Santità" does not fit "oltra che [4010] mostreria che questi officii non sono fatti di suo consenso"), 2010 Imperatore, 8070 Ugonotti, 3050 Italia (written 3 0 5), 6050 Imbasciatore (as in R95), 4060 5050 = "il Duca di Ferrara" (the decipherer's words; the codes are not otherwise attested), dotted 3 + 4 = "Principe di Condé" (the decipherer's words). The decode of 23 Oct (beam search) is superseded. Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied, [NNNN] an unidentified code. ## Reading Si è inteso per cosa certa che il Duca di Ferrara, [?per] mala satisfatione che habia forse sentito di N.S. in un negotio de fuorusciti del contado di Bologna tratato qui in suo nome dal cavalier Gualengo, ha disegnato farne qualche risentimento con Re; et venendo a cotesta corte il conte Ercole Tasone haverà facilmente particolare comissione di parlarle in questa materia. Il quale ofitio non doveria esser fato da esso Imbasciatore, considerata la afetione paterna che N.S. le porta et il poco rispeto che dalla parte sua si ha a questa santa sede, della quale esso è per feudatario, non oservando le capitulationi della sua investitura et in spetie una che lo obliga a rendere li fuorusciti di questo stato ogni volta che gli sieno dimandati. […] che ho voluto che V.S. sapia, acciò se ne sentise ragionare possa dire a Re che sia contenta riservare una orechia per N.S., la quale si giustificarà di maniera che non dubita di farne restar capaci tutti li principi, bisognando sentire che abiano le sue ragioni; ma se non sentirà parlarne, non accaderà farne oficio alcuno, et starà […] avertita mentre il sopradeto si fermerà in corte, et mi avisarà il sucesso di mano in mano. Saria da vedere per mezo di N.S. che si levasse di […] mal Imbasciatore che è là in nome di Re di Francia, il quale fa tanti cativi oficii per la Christianità, che se si comporta molto mete pericolo, sì come oferisce di unire li Ugonotti insieme con li protestanti in una lega con Turchi per asaltare […] asediare da tutte le bande la povera Christianità; et per stabilimento di deta lega afferma che presto sarano in Constantinopoli Imbasciatori del Principe di Condé et delli protestanti, prometendo che dopo che sarà ruinato et destruto ogni cosa si unirano tuti insieme et sarano tuti di una fede con li Turchi. Il qual discorso se ben a qualche altro tempo averia dato da ridere, ora è molto da temere per la travagliata Christianità; sì che levandosi di là così cativo instrumento, oltra che Re di Francia mostreria che questi oficii non sono fati di suo consenso, si faria ancora giovamento non picolo alle cose della Christianità. Et per altra via se intende similmente che in Andrinopoli lo Imbasciatore [di] Re di Francia ha fato con Piali Bascià et generale del mare molti mali oficii et contra N.S. et contra Imperatore et contra la Italia, esortandolo a procurare dal Signore di venire con grandisima armata a preocupare Roma et N.S.; et questo ha fato non solo come Imbasciatore [di] Francia ma anche de comissione delli principi protestanti, prometendo che presto sarano là […] Imbasciatori da lor parte, et oferendo che in Italia facilmente et presto si manderiano infiniti Ugonotti a corompere li animi delli Italiani. ## Notes on the figures - "il Duca di Ferrara, [?per] mala satisfatione": 4 0 6 0 5 0 5 0 2 0 2 4 4 4 0 5 4 1 2 5 3 4 1 2 5 6 6. 4060 5050 read as the decipherer's "il Duca di Ferrara"; "2 0" is not "per" in the key. - "sentito di N.S. in un negotio": 5 6 6 1 2 1 5 0 7 2 0 1010 2 6 0 1 6 0 6 6 3 5 1 2 5 (the decipherer "havuto ... nel"). - After "fuorusciti" (3 1 5 7 1 5 8 2 1 2, end of line 2) line 3 repeats "8 2 1 2" (-citi): the clerk's repetition. - "con Re": 0 9 0 3010 (the decipherer "con S.M."). - "il conte Ercole Tasone": 2 4 0 9 1 6 | 6 7 8 5 4 6 | 1 4 5 5 6 6 (9 = con); the decipherer left dots. - "da esso Imbasciatore": 7 4 0 6 5 5 0 6 0 5 0 (6050, as in R95); the decipherer "da lui". - "si ha a questa": 5 2 0 4 0 4 0 6090 — not a code 4040, but "ha" (4) and "a" (4) with nulls. - "della quale esso è per feudatario": 7 6 4 4 0 309 4 6 0 6 5 5 0 6 0 5020 3 6 1 7 4 1 4 7 2 5 (the decipherer "alla"). - "et in spetie una": 0^. 2 6 0 5 9 6 1 2 6 0 1 6 4 (the decipherer "et spetialmente in una"). - "[…] che ho voluto": 2 6 0 2090 5 0 1 5 4 1 1 5; "2 6" not read (the decipherer "il che"). - "possa dire a Re che sia contenta riservare una orechia per N.S.": 9 5 5 4 0 7 2 7 6 0 4 0 3010 2090 5 2 4 0 9 1 6 6 1 4 0 7 2 0 5 6 7 1 4 7 6 1 6 4 0 5 7 6 2 0 9 4 0 5020 1010 — orechia = 5 7 6 + 209 (chi) + 4. - "starà […] avertita": 5 1 4 7 4 0 5 0 2 5 0 4 1 6 7 1 ? 1 4; "5 2 5" not read (the decipherer "però"). - "mentre il sopradeto si fermerà in corte et mi avisarà": 2 6 6 1 7 6 2 4 5 5 9 7 4 7 6 1 5 5 2 8^3 6 7 2 6^4 7 4 2 6 8 3? 7 1 6 0^.0 2 2 0 4 1 2 5 6 7 4 (the transcription's doubtful 3 and 4 give fermerà; the decipherer "si scriverà in corte"). - "che si levasse di […] mal Imbasciatore": 2090 5 2 0 4 6 1 4 5 6 0 7 2 0 4 0 6 4 . 4 0 9 4 0 2 4 4 0 7070; "4 6 4 . 4 9 4" not read (the decipherer "di levar quel malo Imbasciatore"). - "che è là in nome di Re di Francia": 2090 6 0 4 4 0 2 6 0 6 5 2 6 0 7 2 0 4010. - "che se si comporta molto mete pericolo, sì come oferisce": 2090 5 6 5 2 0 9 9 5 7 1 4 0 2 5 4 1 5 0 2 6 1 6 0 9 6 7 2 8 5 4 5 0 5 2 0 4020 5 3 6 7 2 ? 3 6 (the decipherer "porta molti motti … et come offerisce"). - "con Turchi per asaltare […] asediare": 0 9 0 1 1 7 2 0 9 0 5020 4 5 4 4 1 4 7 6 0 9 0 4 5 6 7 2 4 7 6; the 9 before "asediare" not read. - "Imbasciatori del Principe di Condé": 0 7 0 7 2 0 7 6 4 0 3^. 0 4 — 7070 + 2 (-i); dotted 3 + 4 read as the decipherer's "Principe di Condé". - "Turchi": 1 1 7 + 2 0 9 (as Chiesa, chinea in R101). - "oltra che Re di Francia mostreria": 5 4 1 7 4 0 2090 4010 2 5 5 1 7 6 7 2 4 — the decipherer "S.S. mostrarà". - "Et per altra via se intende similmente": 0^.0 5020 4 4 1 7 4 1 2 4 5 6 2 6 1 6 6 7 6 5 2 2 2 6^4 3060. - "lo Imbasciatore [di] Re di Francia": 4 5 0 7070 4010; no figures for "di" (also before "Francia", 7070 1050). - "con Piali Bascià": 0 9? 0 9 2 4 4 2 0 8 4 5 8 2 4 — Piyale Pasha, kapudan of the Ottoman fleet. - "contra Imperatore et contra la Italia, esortandolo a procurare": 9 1 7 4 2010 0^.0 9 1 7 4 4 4 0 3 0 5 6 5 5 7 1 4 6 7 5 4 5 0 4 0 9 7 5 8 1 7 4 7 6. - "di venire con grandisima armata a preocupare Roma et N.S.": 7 2 1 6 6 2 7 6 9 0 3 7 4 6 7 2 5 2 2 4 4 7 2 4 1 4 4 0 9 7 6 5 8 1 9 4 7 6 7 5 2 4 0^.0 1010. - "non solo come Imbasciatore [di] Francia ma anche de comissione delli principi protestanti": 2060 5 5 6^4 5 4020 7070 1050 2 4 4 6 2090 7 6 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 6 7 6 4 2 …. - "là […] Imbasciatori da lor parte": 4 4 0 5 2 2 6 2 0 5 0 7 0 7 2 0 7 4 0 4 5 7 0 9 4 7 1 6; "5 2 2 6 2 5" not read. - "in Italia facilmente": 2 6 0 3 0 5 3 4 8 2 4 3060 (305 = 3050). - "si manderiano infiniti Ugonotti": 5 2 2 4 6 7 6 7 2 4 6 5 2 6 3 2 6 2 1 2 8070. - "delli Italiani": 7 6 4 2 0 3 0 5 6 2 (305 + n i), then filler.
Translation
# R97 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher, Rome 1568) Same holes as R97_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. It is known for certain that the Duke of Ferrara, out of the dissatisfaction he has perhaps felt with His Holiness in a matter of the exiles of the county of Bologna, dealt with here in his name by the Cavaliere Gualengo, intends to make some complaint of it to the King; and if Count Ercole Tassone comes to your court he will probably have a particular commission to speak to him on this matter. That office ought not to be done by this ambassador, considering the fatherly affection His Holiness bears him and the little respect shown on his side to this Holy See, of which he is a feudatary, not observing the terms of his investiture, and in particular one that obliges him to hand over the exiles of this state whenever they are asked of him. […] I wanted Your Lordship to know, so that if you hear it spoken of you can tell the King to be pleased to keep an ear for His Holiness, who will justify himself in such a way that he does not doubt he can satisfy all the princes, if it comes to hearing their reasons; but if you do not hear it spoken of, there is no need to take any step, and you will be […] watchful while the said man stays at court, and keep me informed of what happens from time to time. It would be well to see, through His Holiness, that that bad ambassador who is there in the name of the King of France be removed, who does so many ill offices for Christendom that if he is tolerated he puts it in great danger, as he offers to unite the Huguenots with the Protestants in a league with the Turks to attack […] and besiege poor Christendom from every side; and to establish that league he affirms that ambassadors of the Prince of Condé and of the Protestants will soon be in Constantinople, promising that after everything has been ruined and destroyed they will all unite and be all of one faith with the Turks. This talk, which at another time would have been laughable, is now much to be feared for afflicted Christendom; so that by removing so bad an instrument from there, besides the King of France showing that these offices are not done with his consent, no small benefit would be done to the affairs of Christendom. And by another route it is likewise understood that in Adrianople the ambassador [of] the King of France has done many ill offices with Piali Pasha, general of the sea, against His Holiness, against the Emperor and against Italy, urging him to procure from the Sultan to come with a very great fleet to seize Rome and His Holiness; and he has done this not only as ambassador [of] France but also on commission from the Protestant princes, promising that ambassadors on their part will soon be there […], and offering that in Italy countless Huguenots would easily and quickly be sent to corrupt the minds of the Italians.
R98 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 6, f. 136r (DECODE R98), unknown)
The King's orders to his ministers in Italy against a Huguenot move into Italy are good, but ministers delay waiting for new commissions; the nuncio is to press for express orders now, so that the Pope can call on them in time for the security of Italy.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/6 #IMAGE NAME: 136r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: RebAn #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: September 5, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 10 mins #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: speech recognition (Google Docs). #IMAGE NAME: 136r.jpg 1^. 0 8 0 2 0 9 0 4 2 0 5 7 7 2 6 2 0 2 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 5 8 7 2 5 6 0 6 0 9 0 7 2 0 9 4 5 4 1 2 0 8 0 9 0 2 4 6 7 4 1 2 0 2 6 0 3 0 5 0 4 4 2 0 5 1 5 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 4^. 0 8 0 5 1 6 5 6 7 5 0 9 7 5 1 2 5 1 2 0 2 6 0 6 1 6 6 1 5 0 2 0 9 0 4 2 0 8 0 7 0 7 2 0 1 0 5 0 1 5 4 6 5 6 7 5 0 1 5 4 1 4 7 5 2 0 4 0 6 0 9 0 8 4 6 7 6 0 3 1 5 6 7 5 0 8 5 6 2 0 0^. 0 5 9 5 7 1 1 6 2 0 5 0 2 0 2 4 8 2 5 5 3 6 5 0 1 1 1 4 1 2 4 0 4^. 0 8 0 5 2 2 2 4 2 0 9 7 5 1 2 5 2 5 6 2 0 5 2 0 5 5 3 4 2 5 6 5 0 7 2 1 4 7 7 4 7 6 0 2 5 4 1 6 0 1 5 4 1 6 0 7 4 4 2 0 2 6 7 6 5 2 2 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 5 0 2 0 1 5 4 6 7 6 0 4 5 9 6 1 4 7 6 0 6 1 5 1 6 0 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 2 0 7 4 3 0 1 0 0^. 0 6 5 1 2 0 5 7 7 6 6 2 0 4 2 2 2 1 4 1 2 0 5 6 7 6 0 5 2 0 1 2 6 6 6 0 4 0 3 4 7 6 0 7 4 6 5 0 5 0 4 4 2 6 6 5 0 7 2 3 6 7 2 7 6 0 4 4 0 2 2 9 7 6 5 4 0 2 6 6 1 7 6 5 2 0 4 5 9 6 1 4 6 5 0 6 0 9 0 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 2 0 5 0 2 5 0 1 0 9 0 3 4 7 4 0 2 6 5 1 4 6 1 2 4 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 9 0 7 2 4 0 5 7 7 6 6 2 0 6 5 9 7 6 5 2 0 0^. 0 4 2 2 2 1 4 1 2 0 4 4 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 5 1 5 2 0 7 6 0 3 0 5 0 7 2 0 9 7 6 5 6 6 1 6 0 4^. 0 8 0 5 6 1 6 6 2 5 6 0 2 4 2 0 2 4 0 8 4 5 5 0 2 0 9 0 7 2 5 0 8 6 6 6 0 3 1 4 7 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 5 6 6 6 1 5 5 4 0 1 4 4 6 7 6 0 4 0 1 6 2 9 5 0 0^. 0 4 5 8 5 0 2 6 0 8 6 6 6 3 2 1 2 5 0 9 1 8 4 2 8 0^. 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 5 2 8 1 7 6 0^. 4 0 7 6 0 3 0 5 0 0^. 0 7 6 4 2 0 5 1 4 1 2 0 7 2 0 3 0 1 0 9 5 6 5 6 4 0 9 6 1 6 3 0 6 0 7 9 8 3 7 9 8 7 8 9 0^. 7 9 8
Decryption
# R98: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R98 136r.jpg (701 items, -1.88/item) [1.]cipamordini[CHE][RE]scrise[QUEL]ripasati[SAUERE]mandatiinfollisuoiministri[04.]counseroprouistimentento[CHE]licrdi[FRANCIA]toanondouoltarsia[QUEL]bandefuseroconioportuni[PER]ilbisognotutauia[04.]comimaiprouisionisisoglionodiuardaremolteuoltedalimedesimiministri[PER]uolereaspetarentouncomisionidafuestiordenmaimitationdesiuieneafaredanooalmenodiferirelaimpresamentresiaspetano[QUEL]comisioniomsuzgarainstantial[RE][CHE]dilordeninspresilimitatialiministrisuoiregodipresente[04.]conuenisemaiilcaso[CHE]diobeneguardittoneetsolualedeltempolocomebenefitiopubli[80.][PER]lasicur[60.]aregodelistatidi[RE]pononapetegerzbfrpcrc[90.]dzb
Reading
# R98 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher (Spagna 6/I/6, f. 136r): reading
Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on the slip bound as f. 139 of the same file (`R98_decifrato_f139r.txt`,
DECODE cleartext image DOC_R98_D1275), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), checked figure by figure against the key
(`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R98_D1669_1669.txt 136r.jpg texts/R98_reading.md`). Where the decipherer and
the figures differ the figures are followed (notes below): "che Re scrisse" for his "del Re Catholico scritti";
"perché fussero provisti" where he left a gap; "sogliono ritardare"; "da Re et novi ordeni" for "dal Re per nuovi
ordini"; "di presente, perché se venisse mai il caso, che Dio ce ne guardi, N.S. se ne [?possa] valere" for his
garbled "di provedere che se occorrerà mai il caso che Dio … convengano S.S. … presti a unirsi"; "per la sicurezza de
Italia" for "per la salute d'Italia". New code values: 8070 Ugonotti, 3050 Italia (also 6030 here), dotted 1 + 8 =
ancora (as in R94).
Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied.
## Reading
Ancora che li ordini che Re scrisse questi dì passati havere mandati in Italia alli suoi ministri perché fussero
provisti in evento che li Ugonotti di Francia volessero voltarsi a queste bande fussero boni et opportuni per il
bisogno, tuttavia, perché simili provisioni si sogliono ritardare molte volte dalli medesimi ministri per volere
aspettare nuove commissioni da Re et novi ordeni limitati, onde si viene a fare dano o al meno differire la impresa
mentre si aspettano queste commissioni, però V.S. farà instantia a S.M. che dia ordeni espresi et limitati alli
ministri suoi de Italia di presente, perché se venisse mai il caso, che Dio ce ne guardi, N.S. se ne [?possa] valere a
tempo et loco in benefitio publico [?et] per la sicurezza de Italia et delli stati di S.M. […]
## Notes on the figures
- "Ancora che": 1^. 0 8 0 2090 — the dotted 1 with 8 is "ancora", as in R94 ("anchora", 0 1^. 0 8).
- "che Re scrisse": 0 2 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 5 8 7 2 5 6 (the decipherer "del Re Catholico scritti").
- "perché fussero": 4^. 0 8 0 5 1 6 5 6 7 5; the decipherer left a gap; "perché" as in R93/R95. The first figure of
"fussero" is a clear 5 (s|o) on the image where 3 (f) is needed: a clerk's slip, read by the decipherer as
"fussero" too.
- "li Ugonotti di Francia": 4 2 0 8 0 7 0 1 0 5 0 — 8070 Ugonotti (new, from the decipherment), 1050 Francia.
- "sogliono ritardare": 5 3 4 2 5 6 5 0 7 2 1 4 7 7 4 7 6.
- "da Re et novi ordeni": 7 4 3 0 1 0 0^.0 6 5 1 2 0 5 7 7 6 6 2.
- "di presente": 7 2 0 9 7 6 5 6 6 1 6 (the decipherer "di provedere").
- "perché se venisse mai il caso, che Dio ce ne guardi": 4^. 0 8 0 5 6 1 6 6 2 5 6 0 2 4 2 0 2 4 0 8 4 5 5 0 2090 7 2 5
0 8 6 6 6 0 3 1 4 7 7 2.
- "N.S. se ne [?possa] valere": 1010 5 6 6 6 1 5 5 4 0 1 4 4 6 7 6. The figures for the verb are 1 5 5 4 (t|u o|s o|s
a|l), clear on the image; "possa" needs 9 for the first; the sense is carried, the word is not.
- "benefitio publico [?et] per": 8 6 6 6 3 2 1 2 5 0 9 1 8 4 2 8 0^. 5 0 5020 — 0^. 5 is not "et" in the key.
- "sicurezza de Italia et delli stati di S.M.": 5 2 8 1 7 6 0^. 4 0 7 6 0 3 0 5 0 0^.0 7 6 4 2 0 5 1 4 1 2 0 7 2 0 3010.
- End: 9 5 6 5 6 4 0 9 6 1 6 3 0 6 0 (the decipherer "conservatione"; the figures do not give it), then filler
7 9 8 3 7 9 8 7 8 9 0^. 7 9 8.Translation
# R98 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher, 1568) Same holes as R98_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. Although the orders which the King wrote in recent days that he had sent to his ministers in Italy, so that they should be provided in case the Huguenots of France wished to turn towards these parts, were good and suited to the need, nevertheless, because such provisions are often delayed by the ministers themselves wanting to wait for new commissions from the King and new limited orders, whereby harm is done or at least the enterprise is put off while these commissions are awaited, Your Lordship will therefore press His Majesty to give express and limited orders to his ministers in Italy now, so that if the case should ever come — which God forbid — His Holiness [?could] make use of them in time and place, for the public good [?and] for the security of Italy and of His Majesty's states […].
R99 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 7, f. 169r-v (DECODE R99), unknown) read in part
The Pope's plan for two galleys of the Order of St Lazarus (sought from Gian Andrea Doria) opposed by Don John of Austria, whom the Pope answered sharply; in Milan the Senate threatened the archbishop's vicar over the armed household at the Corpus Domini procession, and the Pope will use spiritual arms.
Builds coherent sentences, but under the read bar of 95% of words read as sense (95% here); the holes are marked in the reading.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/7 #IMAGE NAME: 169r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: RebAn #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: August 31, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 20 mins #IMAGE NAME: 169r.jpg 4 0 8 0 1 0 1 0 5 2 0 7 2 5 5 4 1 6 0 7 2 0 1 5 4 6 7 0 3 4 7 6 0 6 5 9 6 7 2 6 6 1 2 4 0 7 2 6 0 9 0 7 6 4 2 3 2 5 6 6 0 7 2 0 5 4 6 0 4 4 0 4 7 5 0 4__ 1__ 6__ 4__ 0 8 5 2 6 5 5 0 4 4 0 3 7 4 6 0 2 4 5 1 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 5 2 0 9 7 5 1 6 7 6 5 6 0 7 2 0 7 1 6 0 7 0 4 0 9 0 8 9 5 1 6 5 6 0 5 1 4 7 6 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 2 4 7 2 0 0^. 0 5 8 5 7 6 7 6 0 5 0 2 0 5 2 8 1 7 6 0^. 4 0 7 6 4 2 0 6 4 1 2 3 4 6 1 2 0 0 0 3 2 4 0 5 9 6 7 4 1 4 0 7 2 0 4 1 6 7 4 6 1 7 5 1 4 1 6 0 7 4 4 0 5 2 3 6 5 7 0 3 2 5 4 6 4 6 7 7 6 4 0 7 5 7 2 4 0 2 0 2 6 6 5 1 4 1 5 0 7 2 8 6 7 8 5 0 7 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 0 2 6 1 6 5 5 0 6 0 9 0 7 5 6 0 3 2 5 1 4 6 2 6 6 0 4 0 3 4 1 5 0 1 6 0 1__ 5__ 8__ 5__ 0 7 2 0 7 1 2 5 7 6 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 5 9 5 6 6 6 7 5 5 2 2 6 0 8 2 5 0 4 4 0 7 2 5 6 3 6 5 0 7 6 4 0 7 6 1 5 0 3 7 4 6 0 2 4 5 1 7 5 6? 4 4 4 0 1 5 4 1 6 1 4 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 9 7 2 6 8 2 9 4 4 3 0 6 0 0 0 4 0 8 0 4 4 0 8 5 5 4 0 2 0 6 0 6 0 9 4 5 4 1 4 0 5 6 6 0 4 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 4 4 1 6 7 4 1 2 5 6 6 5 4 9 2 4 0 1 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 4 5 0 4 0 7 2 5 9 5 5 1 5 0 2 6 0 7 0 9 0 2 4 6 2 6 7 4 0 2 0 9 0 6 5 5 0 7 5 6 0 3 2 5 1 4 6 2 0 2 6 7 2 1 4 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 9 0 5 2 0 9 1 6 6 2 1 4 0 4 4 4 0 5 0 2 5 5 6 4 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 6 0 7 2 5 5 4 1 1 4 0 9 6 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 5 6 6 6 0 1 7 5 1 2 6 5 0 7 6 4 6 0 4 4 1 7 6 0 3 0 2 0 7 0 9 7 6 4 0 7 5 7 2 4 0 2 0 6 0 5 2 9 5 5 4 6 5 0 8 0 9 0 4^. 0 8 0 5 6 0 6 0 9 0 8 4 1 4 4 2 #IMAGE NAME: 169v.jpg 6 7 2 0 7 2 0 5 4 6 0 4 4 0^. 4 7 5 0 2 0 6 0 3 4 7 4 6 5 0 9 5 2 0 7 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 7 6 1 6 6 5 0 2 0 6 0 4 1 6 7 4 6 5 0 2 4 3 2 5 7 6 0 2 6 2 2 2 8 5 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 0 9 7 2 2 4 0 1 5 4 0 3 4 7 6 6 0 9 7 5 1 4 0 7 2 0 2 0 9 0 6 0 8 6 6 6 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 9 0 5 2 4 2 6 3 5 7 2 4 1 4 0 5 0 2? 0 9 5 1 6 7 0 7 2 5 9 5 6 7 6 7 6 0 8 4 5 5 0 2 0 9 0 5 6 6 1 2 5 6 0 9 4 7 4 4 7 6 6 0 2^. 0 1 0 4 0 1 5 4 1 5 0 6_. 5_. 1_. 4_. 3_. 0 6 0 2 6 0 4 0 4 0 1 6 5 0 4_. 1_. 5_. 7_. 2_. 0 9 7 5 9 7 2 4 0 4 1 1 5 7 2 1 4 0 2 6 0 9 7 6 2 1 7 2 1 2 5 0 7 6 4 4 0 2 1 7 2 5 7 2 1 2 5 6 6 0 7 6 4 0 4 7 8 2 1 6 5 8 5 1 5 0 9 0 9 0 3 4 1 5 0 2 6_. 1_. 6 6_. 7 6_. 7 6_. 4 4 0 5 1 5 0 1 2 8 4 7 2 5 0 9 0 4 7 5 4 6 0 2 2 6 4 1 5 7 2 6 0 4 4 0 1__ 2__ 3__ 2 4 2 4 0 7 6 4 0 8 5 7 9 1 5 0 7 5 2 2 6 2 0 2 0 9 0 2 0 6 0 7 5 1 6 5 6 0 2 6 6 4 7 6 0 4 4 0 3 4 2 2 3 4 2 4 0 4 7 2 4 1 4 0 4 4 4 0 9 7 5 8 6 5 2 5 6 6 2 4 0 2 0 9 0 2 0 2 5_. 2 0 3 4 1 5 0 4 7 0 2 6 5 1 2 3 4 1 2 5 6 6 0 7 6 4 0 5 6 6 4 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 9 6 6 5 4 0 7 2 0 9 7 5 8 6 7 6 7 6 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 6 0 2 0 9 1 7 4 7 2 0 4 5 7 5 0 9 0 7 0 9 0 4 7 2 2 0 5 9 2 7 2 1 1 4 4 2 0 2 0 9 0 2 4 0 5 2 3 6 5 7 7 2 5 0 3 4 2 0 4 0 7 4 1 6 0 5 0 2 0 8 0 2 0 7 2 0 1 0 9 0
Decryption
# R99: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R99 169r.jpg (687 items, -1.82/item) actusirisoluermuolerfarnespedientiadi[QUEL]religionedisanaladoaunacomesolagranmastro[CHE]siprouernondiruer[GERMANIA]cpstesnotarein[QUEL]mariscorere[PER]sicur[60.]areameluifantigiasperatarmauerletrouatedalsignorgioleandreadormaiinnouatoricercodatumainteso[QUEL]dongiouaninelfatountocodirumoreputoponendosiincioaldisegnodelretogranmastroellauoluntadi[NOSTRO SIGNORE]principalfnaclacosa[NON]epasatlone[SUA MAESTA]pa[CHE]alterationesapilupi[SUA SANTITA]tasarispostoin[QUELLO]maniera[CHE]nsodongiouanimeritata[CHE]sipueniuaalloisonadiuta[SUA MAESTA]panerisolutapero[CHE]senetrouinodelealtrefirpreadoria[NON]siposaescp[04.]con[QUEL]cauali == R99 169v.jpg (581 items, -1.70/item) ndidiolel[40.]aro[NON]faranopoi[QUELLO][CHE]deteno[NON]aueranoilgiorninimicoditumaprimauolfarneprouar[CON][QUESTA]bene[CHE]tpoiainformata[PER]poterrisponderecaso[CHE]sentiseparlaree[02.]tauoltoestageinlatesausdipropriaautoritainpreiuditiodelaiurisditionedelarciuescou[QUI]pfluointenderealsuouicarioparoleminatodinaluigiliadelcorpusdomini[CHE][NON]doueseinearelafamigliaarmauallaprocesioneil[CHE]misigausadinstigationedelsenausutpensadiprocederein[QUEL]eipuradilor[QUI][QUELLO]armispirituali[CHE]ilsignorrmogliadate[PER]cidiup
Reading
# R99 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [Rome, July 1568] (Spagna 6/I/7, f. 169r–v): reading Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on the leaf bound with it (`R99_decifrato_f170.txt`, DECODE cleartext image DOC_R99_D1284), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), checked figure by figure against the key (`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R99_D1670_1670.txt all texts/R99_reading.md`; both pages run together). The clear letters around it on the record (ff. 164-168, 21 June-27 July 1568) date it to the summer of 1568. Where the decipherer and the figures differ the figures are followed (notes below): "Et N.S." (4080 1010) for "Però S.S."; "esperientia di questa religione" where he left a gap; "havea commesso"; "provedesse"; "delli naviganti" for his gap; "signor Gioan Andrea"; "con N.S." for his struck word; "senza qualche alteratione" for his "tanto quanto la merita"; "lo ha risposto"; "esso don Giovani"; "alla persona di N.S." for "alla grandezza"; "deveno" for "doveriano"; "novamente in Milano uno atto" for his struck words; "contra di loro". New code values from the decipherment and the figures: 7040 galere, 9090 havendo (also R101), 6020 causa, 4080 = et at the head of a letter (as in R100). Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied, [2020] an unidentified code. ## Reading Et N.S. si risolve di voler fare esperientia di questa religione di San Lazaro, et havea commesso al gran mastro che si provedesse di due galere [?acciò] potesse stare in questi mari et occorrere per sicureza delli naviganti; et già sperava di haverle trovate dal signor Gioan Andrea d'Oria, [2020] n'è stato [?di] [?certo] [?…] N.S. [?…] inteso questo; don Giovani ne ha fatto un [?poco] di rumore con N.S., oponendosi in ciò al disegno del detto gran mastro [?e] alla voluntà di N.S. principalmente, et la cosa non è passata senza qualche alteratione. Sappia V.S. che N.S. lo ha risposto in quella maniera che esso don Giovani meritava et che si conveniva alla persona di N.S., la quale è risoluta, però che se ne trovino delle altre quando quelle del d'Oria non si possano havere, perché se questi cavallieri di San Lazaro non farano poi quello che deveno, non haverano maggiore inimico di N.S.; ma prima vol farne prova. Di che è bene che V.S. sia informata, per poter rispondere caso che sentisse parlarne. [02.] [1040] [?…] novamente in Milano uno atto di propria autorità in preiuditio della iurisditione del arcivescovo, havendo fatto intendere al suo vicario [con] parole minatorie la vigilia del Corpus Domini che non dovesse menare la famiglia armata alla processione; il che [2020] [?si] fatto ad instigatione del senato. N.S. pensa di procedere in questa causa contra di loro con quelle armi spirituali che il signor Dio gli ha date. Per avviso di V.S. ## Notes on the figures - "Et N.S.": 4 0 8 0 1 0 1 0 (the decipherer "Però S.S."); 4080 is "et" also in R100. - "esperientia di questa religione": 0 6 5 9 6 7 2 6 6 1 2 4 0 7 2 6090 7 6 4 2 3 2 5 6 6; "San Lazaro" 5 4 6 0 4 4 0 4 7 5 (the z written with a plain 0 here, a dotted 0 later: 4 4 0^. 4 7 5). - "havea commesso al gran mastro": 4 1 6 4 0 8 5 2 6 5 5 0 4 4 0 3 7 4 6 0 2 4 5 1 7 5 (the decipherer "haveva"). - "si provedesse di due galere": 5 2 0 9 7 5 1 6 7 6 5 6 0 7 2 0 7 1 6 0 7 0 4 0 — 7040 galere (new). - "[?acciò]": 9 0 8 before "potesse" (9 5 1 6 5 6); the decipherer's "acciò"; the figures do not give it. - "per sicureza delli naviganti": 5020 5 2 8 1 7 6 0^. 4 0 7 6 4 2 0 6 4 1 2 3 4 6 1 2. - "signor Gioan Andrea d'Oria": 5 2 3 6 5 7 0 3 2 5 4 6 4 6 7 7 6 4 0 7 5 7 2 4. - "[2020] n'è stato [?di] [?certo] [?…] N.S. [?…] inteso questo": 0 2 0 2 6 6 5 1 4 1 5 0 7 2 8 6 7 8 5 0 7 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 0 2 6 1 6 5 5 0 6090. Checked on the image (the figures are as transcribed); 8 6 7 8 5 gives "cerbo/cerco", not "certo"; 7 4 and 2 4 around 1010 not read. The decipherer: "come sono certo che V.S. haverà inteso". - "don Giovani ne ha fatto un [?poco] di rumore": 7 5 6 0 3 2 5 1 4 6 2 6 6 0 4 0 3 4 1 5 0 1 6 0 1 5 8 5 0 7 2 0 7 1 2 5 7 6; "poco" has 1 (t|u) for 9 (p). - "con N.S., oponendosi": 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 5 9 5 6 6 6 7 5 5 2. - "[?e] alla voluntà": 6? 4 4 4 0 1 5 4 1 6 1 4 (the 6 doubtful in the transcription). - "senza qualche alteratione": 0 5 6 6 0 4 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 4 4 1 6 7 4 1 2 5 6 6. - "Sappia V.S. che N.S. lo ha risposto": 5 4 9 2 4 0 1090 2090 1010 4 5 0 4 0 7 2 5 9 5 5 1 5 (the decipherer "le ha"). - "che esso don Giovani meritava": 2090 6 5 5 0 7 5 6 0 3 2 5 1 4 6 2 0 2 6 7 2 1 4 1 4. - "alla persona di N.S.": 4 4 4 0 5 0 2 5 5 6 4 0 7 2 0 1010 (502 = per, X0Y). - "quelle del d'Oria": 7 0 9 7 6 4 0 7 5 7 2 4 (709 = 7090). - "perché se questi cavallieri": 4^. 0 8 0 5 6 0 6090 8 4 1 4 4 2 6 7 2. - "deveno": 7 6 1 6 6 5 (the decipherer "doveriano"). - "[02.] [1040] [?…] novamente in Milano uno atto": 0 2^. 0 1 0 4 0 1 5 4 1 5 0 6 5 1 4 3 0 6 0 2 6 0 4 0 4 0 1 6 5 0 4 1 5 7 2 — the dotted 2 and 1040 (lettere in R95) not read; 1 5 4 1 5 not read; 6 5 1 4 + 3060 = novamente; 4040 Milano (as in R95); "4 1 5" atto, "7 2" di. The decipherer (struck and corrected): "Il [Imp.mo] … novam.te in Milano uno [atto] di propria autorita"; a later hand above: "Della dalla Chiesa a Milano". - "havendo fatto": 9 0 9 0 3 4 1 5 — 9090 = havendo (also R101: "havendo Re overo suoi ministri … suscitato"). - "[con] parole": 0 9 0 4 7 5 4 6: one 9 for "p", no figure for "con". - "il che [2020] [?si] fatto": 2 4 0 2 0 9 0 2 0 2 5 2 0 3 4 1 5 (the decipherer "il che è stato fatto"). - "questa causa contra di loro": 6090 6 0 2 0 9 1 7 4 7 2 0 4 5 7 5 — 6020 causa (new). - "gli ha date": 3 4 2 0 4 0 7 4 1 6.
Translation
# R99 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher, summer 1568) Same holes as R99_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. And His Holiness has resolved to make trial of this order of St Lazarus, and had instructed the Grand Master to provide himself with two galleys [?so that] he could keep to these seas and run them for the safety of navigators; and he already hoped to have found them from Signor Gian Andrea Doria, [2020] […] His Holiness […] this; Don John has made [?a little] noise about it with His Holiness, opposing in this the plan of the said Grand Master [?and] chiefly His Holiness's will, and the matter has not passed without some ill feeling. Your Lordship should know that His Holiness answered him as Don John deserved and as befitted His Holiness's person, who is resolved, however, that others be found if those of Doria cannot be had, because if these knights of St Lazarus do not then do what they must, they will have no greater enemy than His Holiness; but first he wants to try them. Of which it is well that Your Lordship be informed, to be able to answer in case you hear it spoken of. [02.] [1040] […] lately in Milan an act of their own authority in prejudice of the archbishop's jurisdiction, having told his vicar [with] threatening words on the eve of Corpus Domini that he must not bring the armed household to the procession; which [2020] [?was] done at the instigation of the Senate. His Holiness intends to proceed in this cause against them with the spiritual arms that the Lord God has given him. For Your Lordship's information.
R100 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 8, f. 789 (DECODE R100), unknown)
The King's ministers mean to deceive the nuncio over the Inquisition of Catalonia and keep people from coming to him for absolution; the ambassador presses for the case to be referred to the King; without waiting for another resolution the nuncio is to execute the brief when the parties ask.
Transcription
#CIPHERTEXT #CATALOG NAME: ASV_i1025_SdS_Spain_6_I-8 #IMAGE NAME: 789.jpeg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: MEG #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: June 16th, 2020 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 30 min #TRANSCRIPTION METHOD: Manual #IMAGE NAME: 789.jpeg 7 4 4 0 9 7 5 8 6 7 6 7 6 0 2 0 9 0 3 4 6 5 0 4 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 7 2 0 3 0 1 0 5 2 0 9 9 7 6 6 7 6 2 0 9 0 7 2 5 6 3 6 4 6 5 0 7 2 6 3 4 6 4 7 6 0 1 0 9 0 2 6 0 7 0 9 0 2 4 1 6 7 2 4 0 7 6 4 4 0 6 0 6 7 2 0 8 4 1 4 4 5 3 6 4 0 4 0 8 0 2 2 9 6 7 2 5 8 5 6 5 0 2 0 9 0 7 0 9 0 3 6 6 1 2 0 2 0 6 0 1 6 6 3 5 6 5 0 7 4 0 4 6 2 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 5 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 0 0 5 0 9 0 4 5 0 7 0 7 0 3 4 0 9 5 2 0 2 6 5 1 4 6 1 2 4 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 9 0 6 0 9 0 8 4 1 5 4 0 5 2 4 0 7 2 2 6 5 4 0 2 6 0 2 0 5 0 4 0 3 0 1 5 2 0 2 0 9 0 5 6 6 0 4 0 4 5 9 6 1 4 7 6 0 7 2 0 3 0 9 0 4 4 1 7 4 0 7 6 5 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 6 2 0 9 0 4 4 0 9 7 2 2 4 0 1 0 9 0 2 6 1 4 0 2 6 0 6 5 6 8 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 2 4 0 8 7 6 1 6 0 3 0 2 7 4 4 6 0 9 4 7 1 2 0 6 6 0 5 2 4 0 7 2 8 6 7 8 4 0 3 7 3 8 9 3 7 8 3 9 3 8 7 3 <CLEARTEXT IT V.d. si? ricorda? fino li ministri di S.M. li <IL> et bisognano?> <CLEARTEXT IT inganno? V.S. in <IL> <IL> Ing.no? di Catalogna? impedi> <CLEARTEXT IT scono at? quello ogni? nd? vengono da lui? <IL> ogni?> <CLEARTEXT IT lo Impe.re? far fui? intention? a N.S. at? questa compositioni?> <CLEARTEXT IT norra? in Spagna? a S.M. si at? <IL> <IL> di quei> <CLEARTEXT IT <IL> <IL> la pr.? V.S. norra? in Veg.mi? il <IL>> <CLEARTEXT IT quando dando? parti ne siano? <IL>>
Decryption
# R100: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R100 789.jpeg (406 items, -1.95/item) dalprocedere[CHE]fanoamministridi[RE]sipprende[CHE]disegnanodingaeldetpie[QUELLO]materiadellendicatalognaabimpediscono[CHE][QUELLO]genti[NON]uengonodalei[PER]lasolutione[QUI]lordgapoiinstantila[NOSTRO SIGNORE][CHE][QUEL]causasiariinolinisagtsi[CHE]senlaspetaredigpaltraresolutione[CHE]laprimaupietainesecutioneilbreuefidaanpartinesiaricercagrgbpfdbgpgcrg??????????????????
Reading
# R100 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [spring 1569] (Spagna 6/I/8, f. 280r) Rests on: the contemporary decipherment written under the cipher on the same page (`R100_decifrato_f280r.txt`), checked against the figures (`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R100_D2342_2342.txt 789.jpeg texts/R100_reading.md`). Figures and decipherment agree except: "quella materia" (7090) for his "questa", "sia rimessa" (5 2 4 7 2 2 6 5 4) for his "si rimetta", "sì che" (5 2 2090) for his "li che", "sia ricerca[ta]" for "sarà ricercata". Codes first glossed here: 4080 et, 5070 Imbasciatore, 6060 (written 6 0 6) Inquisitione. Neighbouring clear letters: f. 282r dated Rome 25 April 1569, f. 279r [..] May 1569. ## Reading Dal procedere che fanno li ministri di S.M. si comprende che disegnano d'ingannare V.S. in quella materia dell'Inquisitione di Catalogna, et impediscono che quelle genti non vengono da lei per la absolutione. Qui l'Imbasciatore fa poi instantia a N.S. che questa causa sia rimessa in Spagna a S.M.; sì che, senza aspettare di qua altra resolutione che la prima, V.S. metta in esecutione il breve quando dalle parti ne sia ricercata. ## Notes on the figures - "comprende" is enciphered con-prende (9 9 7 6 6 7 6), "absolutione" without the b (4 5 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 6). - "ricercata": the figures give ricerca, then the padding; the page ends in the two illegible groups DECODE marks ?.
Translation
# R100 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher of spring 1569) From the way His Majesty's ministers proceed one can see that they intend to deceive Your Lordship in that matter of the Inquisition of Catalonia, and they prevent those people from coming to you for absolution. Here the Ambassador is now pressing His Holiness that this case be referred to His Majesty in Spain; so, without waiting for any resolution from here other than the first, Your Lordship is to put the brief into execution when the parties ask you for it.
R101 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 9, f. 291r-v (DECODE R101), unknown)
The Pope accepted the hackney and the St Peter's day dues with the fisc's protest, not as census but as fruits of a fief of the Holy See, and claims devolution under the investitures of Julius II and Julius III; the King's ministers have raised a schism in Naples, imprisoning the bishops' notaries and executors (an aged doctor died in prison); God will punish who troubles His Church, and the Pope will have to take measures if the King does not remedy it.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/9 #IMAGE NAME: 291r.jpg-291v.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: RebAn #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: September 12, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 15+6=21 mins #IMAGE NAME: 291r.jpg #Difficult to see some number since ink has spread. Two numbers have been crossed over in the end of the page, these have been left out. 5 0 2 0 2 6 5 1 7 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 7 2 0 0? 1 9 0 5 4 8 6 7 4 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 4 8 6 1 5 0 1 4 1 2 2 6 3 ? 6 0 4 4 2 0 9 6 6 4 0 0^. 0 4 2 0 7 6 6 4 7^? 2 0 5 5 4 2 1 2 0 2 0 9 0 5 2 0 9 4 3 4 6 5 0 2 4 0 3 2 5 7 6 5 7 2 0 5 4 6 0 9 2 6 1 7 5 0 2 4 0 9 0 9 7 5 1 6 5 1 4 0 7 6 4 0 3 2 5 8 5 0 4 4 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 1 0 1 0 4 7 6 7 6 6 7 5 0 8 2 5 6 0 2 0 9 0 2 0 6 0 4 2 0 4 8 6 1 4 1 4 0 5 0 2 0 8 6 6 5 5 0 2 4 0 4 0 2 3 7 1 1 2 0 7 2 0 7 0 9 0 7 6 3 6 5 0 3 6 1 7 5 0 7 2 7 6 1 5 0 7 2 0 6 0 9 0 5 4 6 1 4 0 5 6 7 6 9 7 6 1 6 6 7 6 0 4 4 0 7 6 1 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 5 0 2 0 2 5 4 1 2 0 8 4 9 2 0 7 6 4 4 0 2 6 1 6 5 1 2 1 1 7 4 0 7 6 0 2 5 4 2 5 0 5 6 8 5 6 7 5 0 0^. 0 7 6 0 2 1 4 2 5 0 1 6 7 0^. 5 0 5 4 6 1 6 0 2 6 2 5 7 2 6 9 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 5 1 6 7 5 0 5 1 5 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 7 2 0 5 7 7 2 6 6 0 5 1 5 0 5 1 5 8 2 1 4 1 5 0 1 6 2 4 6 6 2 3 6 5 1 5 0 5 8 2 5 2 4 0 2 6 0 7 0 9 0 7 6 3 6 5 0 5 2 0 4 0 2 0 5 2 0 9 5 1 7 4 0 2 0? 9 4 7 2 7 6 0 5 3 6 2 0 9 6 7 5 5 6 4 0 4 4 2 6 6 4 0 7 4 0 9 4 5 2 5 6 2 0 4 6 1 4 6 7 5 0 4 4 0 5 8 6 7 2 6 6 1 2 4 0 4 4 4 0 5 6 7 6 0 4 9 5 5 1 5 4 2 8 4 0 5 6 7 6 0 6 6 0 4 2 0 1 6 5 8 5 1 2 0 6 6 4 5 7 5 0 1 2 8 4 7 2 2 0 9 5 5 4 6 5 0 8 0 9 0 6 5 1 4 7 2 2 0 2 0 9 0 4 2 0 5 6 7 1 4 6 5 0 6 6 6 5 6 8 1 1 5 7 2 0 2 0 9 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 9 2 1 0 9 4 7 1 6 0 3 4 8 6 6 7 5 0 2 4 0 4 5 7 5 0 5 3 2 1 2 5 0 2 0 6 0 5 2 4 6 5 0 7 4 4 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 7 6 3 2 2 0 8 4 7 8 6 7 4 1 2 0 0^. 0 ? 7 4 0 6 0 9 0 1 6 0 7 5 1 5 7 6 0 7 4 0 5 5 7 4 0 7 2 0 7 6 8 7 6 9 2 1 4 0 6 1 4 0 5 2 0 4 4 5 8 2 5 0 2 5 7 2 7 6 0 2 6 0 8 4 7 8 6 7 6 0 5 6 0 1 4 4 6 0 6 0 4 4 0 2 6 6 1 6 0 7 2 0 3 0 1 4 0 2 0 4 2 0 5 1 5 2 0 2 2 6 2 5 1 7 2 0 7 2 8 5 6 5 0 1 0 1 0 4 1 6 7 4 0 9 4 1 2 6 6 0^. 4 0^. 0 9 7 6 3 4 7 4 0 2 4 0 5 2 3 6 5 7 0 7 2 5 0 2 0 9 0 4 2 8 6 7 2 0 5 1 4 0 5 4 6 1 4 #IMAGE NAME: 291v.jpg 2 0 9 6 5 4 0 7 4 0 1 4 4 6 0 1 7 2 8 1 4 4 1 2 5 6 6 0 2 4 0 5 2 0 3 1 4 7 7 2 0 3 0 1 0 7 4 4 0 3 2 1 7 2 1 2 5 7 6 0 7 2 5 0 2 4 0 3 0 9 4 6 0 5 1 5 4 6 0 8 6 6 0 9 6 7 2 6 1 6 7 6 0 2 0 9 0 4 4 0 5 1 4 2 0 9 6 5 4 0 5 2 4 0 1 7 4 1 4 3 4 2 4 1 4 0 2 4 0 4 4 4 0 3 2 6 6 0 2 0 9 0 4 4 0 1 7 4 1 4 3 4 2 4 0 2 0 6 0 6 6 0 5 4 7 4 0 5 6 6 0^. 4 0 8 4 5 1 2 3 5 0 0^. 0 2 0 9 0 6 0 7 2 5 5 8 6 7 2 6 6 1 6 0 4 7 2 5 0 0^. 0 4 4 0 5 1 5 0 1 2 8 4 7 2 5 0 2 0 6 0 5 4 7 4 0 2 6 7 4 1 2 3 4 2 4 0 5 6 0 9 6 7 7 6 7 4 0 4 4 0 5 8 6 7 2 6 6 1 2 4 0 7 6 0 5 1 5 2 0 5 1 7 2 1 2 0 5 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 6 0 5 2 0 7 2 5 5 4 1 4 0 7 2 7 2 2 6 7 2 4 7 1 2 0 9 7 6 5 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 5 4 7 4 0 6 6 8 6 5 2 1 4 1 5 0 4 0 9 2 3 4 2 4 7 1 2 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 0 9 7 5 1 2 5 2 5 6 6 0 6 0 2 0 8 0 2 0 7 2 0 1 0 9 0 7 3 3 8 7 3 3 8 3 7 9 3 7 3 8 9 3
Decryption
# R101: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R101 291r.jpg (891 items, -1.79/item) ?????[PER]instrutioneditzsacera[CHE]ttabetstatiing?elliznellidenarisoliti[CHE]sipaganoilgiornodisanpietroi[GERMANIA]protestadelgiocola[SUA MAESTA]paettaredendocioe[CHE][NON]liaceuata[PER]ceessialifrutidi[QUELLO]degesgetrodiretodi[QUEL]santasedepretendelareuolutione[PER]molticapidellinuestituradeisamosecondodeiuliste[70.]ssaeunmemorinzp[RE]sterosuoiministridiordinestosuscitatounmannifestsobismain[QUELLO]degnos[CONCILIO]isipotraiparireognipersonaalienadapasioniaetandolaobedientiallasedeapostolicasereneliuescouienlodouicarmiposano[SAUERE]nouarmi[CHE]aiseruansenesecutori[CHE][PER]lapiupartefacendoilloroogitio[NON]sianodaliministridefiibarberati?da[QUEL]uerousrndassdadidecrepitantasilascismorireinbarbernonualeelamentedigtamaisuoiministridiconottauerapatie[60.][40.]prefarailsignordio[CHE]licedisuasanta == R101 291v.jpg (411 items, -1.88/item) mpesadataletribulationeilsiguardi[RE]dalgiuditioderioi[SUA MAESTA]panotolebenperintere[CHE]lastampesasiatrauagliauaiallafine[CHE]altrauaglia[NON]nesarase[60.]acastigo[CHE]edisobedienteadioalsuouicario[NON]saramerauigliaseperredalaobedientiadesuoisuditi[PER]fi[RE][NON]sirisoltadirimediaruiprestouuolraenbesitatoapigliartigza[CHE]prouisioneniciritprffbdffcfrpfdfbpf
Reading
# R101 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [summer 1569] (Spagna 6/I/9, f. 291r–v) Rests on: the figures only. No decipherment is on the DECODE images of this record (cipher 291r–v; clear letters 286v–293v, none a decifrato) and no printed text was found (see the reread log). Read word by word with the key as extended by the R94/R95/R100 decipherments (9 = con, dotted 0 = z, 0^.0 = et, X0Y codes, single letters for doubles) and checked with `python reread_aless_align.py texts/R101_transcription_corrected.txt 291r.jpg texts/R101_reading.md` (and 291v.jpg). The page is badly burned through by the ink; three places where the figures fail are marked. New code values from the context: 8090 havere (Lasry "sauere?"), 4020 come (as in R95), 209 = "chi" in chinea, Chiesa, chiarire. Neighbouring clear letters: f. 292r and 293r–v, July 1569. Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [NNNN] unidentified code. ## Reading Per instruttione di V.S., [?saperà] che N.S. accettò [?ultimamente] la chinea et li denari soliti che si pagano il giorno di San Pietro, ma con protesta del fisco, alla quale N.S. aderendo, cioè che non [?l'ha] accettata per censo ma li frutti di quello regno, feudo diretto di questa santa Sede, pretende la devolutione per molti capi dell'investitura de Iulio secondo et de Iulio terzo, sante memorie. Havendo Re overo suoi ministri di ordine suo suscitato un manifesto scisma in quello regno, sì come si potrà chiarire ogni persona aliena da passioni, levando la obedientia alla Sede Apostolica, onde né li vescovi né loro vicarii possano havere notarii che li servano né esecutori, che per la più parte facendo il loro offitio non siano dalli ministri regii carcerati; et […] da questa un dottore da [?Sora] di decrepita età si lasciò morire in carcere. Se tale è la mente di S.M., come li suoi ministri dicono, N.S. haverà patienza et pregarà il Signor Dio che liberi sua santa Chiesa da tale tribulatione; ma si guardi Re dal giuditio de Dio, il quale suole ben permettere che la sua Chiesa sia travagliata, ma alla fine chi la travaglia non ne sarà senza castigo, et chi è disobediente a Dio et al suo vicario non sarà meraviglia se perderà la obedientia de' suoi sudditi. Per[ò] quando Re non si risolva di rimediarvi presto, N.S. sarà necessitato a pigliarvi qualche provisione [6020]. Avviso di V.S. ## Notes on the figures - "[?saperà]": 5 4 8 6 7 4 (s a b|c e r a); the third figure is under a burn, 9 (p) would give saperà. - "[?ultimamente]": 1 4 1 2 2 6 3 ? 6 — ultim- clear, the rest under a hole in the paper; ultima+3060 (-mente) needs 4 3 0 6 0. - "[?l'ha]": figures 4 2 (l/a i/m). - "Iulio secondo": 2 5 4 2 5 (the second Iulio is 2 1 4 2 5); "terzo" is 1 6 7 0^. 5 with the dotted zero for z. - "Havendo": 9090, attested as "havendo" by the decipherment of R99 (23 Oct 2026, r2g; earlier an unlisted code). - "et […]": one illegible group (DECODE "?") after the dotted et. - "[?Sora]": 5 5 7 4 (o/s o/s d/r a/l). - "chi" is written with the code for "che" (2 0 9): chinea, Chiesa (twice), chiarire; "chi" (whoever) is 2090. - "[6020]. Avviso di V.S.": 8020 = avviso and 6020 = causa / negocio in the decipherments of R93, R96, R99, R115 (r2g); 6020 does not fit here and stays open.
Translation
# R101 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher of summer 1569) For Your Lordship's instruction, [you will know?] that His Holiness [recently?] accepted the hackney and the customary moneys paid on St Peter's day, but with a protest by the fisc, to which His Holiness adheres — that is, that he has not accepted it as a census but as the fruits of that kingdom, a direct fief of this Holy See — and claims the devolution [of the kingdom] on many heads of the investiture of Julius II and Julius III, of holy memory. The King or his ministers having by his order stirred up a manifest schism in that kingdom, as anyone free of passion can make out, taking away obedience to the Apostolic See, so that neither the bishops nor their vicars can have notaries to serve them, nor executors who, for the most part, in doing their office are not imprisoned by the royal ministers; and […] from this […] a doctor from [?Sora], of decrepit age, was left to die in prison. If such is His Majesty's mind, as his ministers say, His Holiness will have patience and will pray the Lord God to free His holy Church from such tribulation; but let the King beware of the judgement of God, who is indeed wont to permit His Church to be troubled, but in the end whoever troubles it will not go unpunished; and whoever is disobedient to God and to His vicar, it will be no wonder if he loses the obedience of his own subjects. Therefore, if the King does not resolve to remedy it soon, His Holiness will be obliged to take some measure there [6020]. For Your Lordship's information.
R102 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/I, item 10, f. 306r (DECODE R102), unknown)
Summer 1569: the Pope thinks Cardinal Espinosa fails in his duty towards the Holy See at Philip II's court and has said he regrets making him cardinal; the nuncio may let him know if amendment can be hoped for.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. di Stato/Spagna 6_I/10 #IMAGE NAME: 306r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: RebAn #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: September 12, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 10 mins #IMAGE NAME: 306r.jpg 6 6 4 4 0 1 0 4 0 9 1 8 4 2 8 4 0 2 5 0 5 0 5 8 7 2 1 5 0 9 2 1 0 2 5 7 6 5 1 4 3 0 6 0 7 6 4 0 7 0 3 7 2 0 7 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 9 0 1 6 7 2 1 4 0 4 0 9 4 7 4 4 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 7 2 0 4 1 2 0 0^. 0 7 6 4 5 2 6 2 5 1 7 5 0 5 1 5 0 9 7 5 8 6 7 6 7 6 0 2 4 0 1 5 3 4 2 5 0 2 0 9 0 6 4 4 0 5 4 9 2 4 5 0 2 0 2 6 3 5 7 2 4 1 2 5 6 6 0 5 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 8 5 2 2 5 6 0 2 0 9 0 2 5 3 4 8 6 5 2 0 5 4 9 6 7 6 0 4 0 1 0 9 0 2 0 9 0 7 0 3 0 2 4 6 8 4 0 2 6 0 2 5 4 1 6 0 8 5 5 6 7 2 0 3 4 7 0 7 0 9 0 5 3 2 1 2 5 0 2 0 9 0 7 6 1 6 7 2 4 0 4 9 7 6 5 5 0 3 0 1 0 2 6 0 5 6 7 1 2 1 2 5 0 7 2 0 6 0 9 0 5 4 6 1 4 0 5 6 7 6 0 5 6 7 6 0 7 4 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 5 1 4 1 5 0 7 6 9 1 1 4 1 5 2 6 7 6 3 6 5 0 7 2 0 7 0 9 0 7 2 3 6 2 1 4 0 2 0 9 0 1 2 6 6 6 0 0^. 0 4 0 7 6 1 5 0 3 0 9 4 2 0 9 1 5 4 1 4 0 6 5 6 7 5 2 0 9 6 6 1 2 1 5 0 7 2 0 4 1 6 7 4 5 0 3 4 1 5 0 8 4 7 7 2 6 4 4 6 0 2 4 2 0 9 0 5 6 0 5 2 0 9 5 1 6 5 6 0 5 9 6 7 4 7 6 0 8 5 7 6 1 2 5 6 6 0 2 6 0 4 1 2 0 5 4 7 2 4 0 8 6 6 6 4 0 3 4 7 3 4 2 6 4 5 0 5 4 9 6 7 6 0 2 4 0 2 6 0 6 0 9 0 1 0 9 0 5 2 0 3 5 1 6 7 6 2 0 5 6 8 5 6 7 5 0 2 0 9 0 4 6 0 9 4 7 6 7 4 0 8 5 6 1 6 6 2 7 5 2 0 4 4 0 1 6 2 9 5 0 0^. 0 4 4 6 0 9 6 7 5 5 6 6 7 2 2 6 1 6 6 7 5 2 2 0 4 4 4 0 9 7 1 7 6 6 1 2 4 0 1 1 4 0 2 6 0 8 2 5 0 8 3 7 3 8 3 9 3 8 9 3
Decryption
# R102: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R102 306r.jpg (627 items, -1.83/item) nelauapublicaisoscriuopiumodestafedelrgdi[QUELLO][CHE]pueritaaparlatotudiatidelsinistrosuoprocederemauoglis[CHE]nalsapia[PER]informationesta[CHE]tumicomioe[CHE]iofacesisapere[SUA SANTITA][QUELLE]prfmancainmoltecosedifar[QUELLO]ofitio[CHE]deterialpreso[RE]inseruitiodi[QUEL]santasereonder[SUA SANTITA]testatoreputatoinregnodi[QUELLO]dignita[CHE]uiennaretogpaipuoauanonrompentitodiatedasgatocardinalema[CHE]sesipotesesperadeboretioneinluisariabeneafarglielosaperemaine[SUA SANTITA]poigouereisecondo[CHE]lepareraconuenirsialtempolaepersonediintendomialaprudentiattainbisbfdgbgpgcpg
Reading
# R102 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [Rome, summer 1569] (Spagna 6/I/10, f. 306r): reading
Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on the slip bound as f. 307 of the same file (`R102_decifrato_f307r.txt`,
DECODE cleartext image DOC_R102_D1308), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), checked figure by figure against the key
(`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R102_D1672_1672.txt 306r.jpg texts/R102_reading.md`). The clear covering
letter around it (DOC_R102_D1307/D1309) is docketed 27 June and 6 August 1569. Where the decipherer and the figures
differ the figures are followed: "io ho scritto" ("s'io"), "deveria", "onde da N.S." ("che da N.S."), "reputato
indegno" (7 = r and d: he wrote "in|degno" across a line), "[?essersi] pentito" (the figures give e-r-s-i), 1010
N.S. where he wrote "S.S.". New code value: 7030 = Cardinale [Espinosa] (the decipherer "Card.le Spinosa"; also
"il Card.le" where the figures give 7030 alone). The subject is Cardinal Diego de Espinosa, President of the Council
of Castile and Inquisitor General, made cardinal by Pius V in 1568.
Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied.
## Reading
Nela lettera publica io ho scritto più modestamente del Cardinale [Espinosa] di quello che con verità [?ha] parlato
N.S. di lui et del sinistro suo procedere; ma voglio che ella sapia, per informatione sua, che N.S. mi comise che io
facesi sapere a V.S. che [il] Cardinale manca in molte cose di far quello ofitio che deveria apreso Re in servitio di
questa santa sede, onde da N.S. è stato reputato indegno di quella dignità che tiene, et ha deto qualche volta non
[?essersi] pentito di haverlo fato cardinale. Ma che se si potese sperare coretione in lui, saria bene a farglielo
sapere; ma in questo V.S. si governi secondo che le parerà convenirsi al tempo et alle persone, rimetendomi alla
prudentia [?sua] in ciò.
## Notes on the figures
- "Nela lettera publica io ho scritto": 6 6 4 4 0 1040 9 1 8 4 2 8 4 0 2 5 0 5 0 5 8 7 2 1 5 (1040 = lettere, as in R95).
- "del Cardinale [Espinosa]": 7 6 4 0 7 0 3 — 7030 written X0Y; the name is the decipherer's. Line 5: 2090 7 0 3 0 "che
il Cardinale".
- "di quello che con verità [?ha] parlato": 7 2 0 7090 2090 9 0 1 6 7 2 1 4 0 4 0 4 0 9 4 7 4 4 1 5 — 9 = con; the two 4s
between "verità" and "parlato" read as "ha" by sense.
- "deveria apreso Re": 7 6 1 6 7 2 4 0 4 9 7 6 5 5 0 3010.
- "onde da N.S. è stato reputato indegno": 0 5 6 7 6 0 7 4 0 1010 6 0 5 1 4 1 5 0 7 6 9 1 1 4 1 5 2 6 7 6 3 6 5.
- "non [?essersi] pentito": 6 5 6 6 7 5 2 0 9 6 6 1 2 1 5 — 6 7 5 2 gives e-r/d-s/o-i/m; "essersi" would need 6 5 5 6 7 5 2.
- "a farglielo sapere": 4 0 3 4 7 3 4 2 6 4 5 0 5 4 9 6 7 6.
- "ma in questo V.S.": 2 4 0 2 6 0 6090 1090 (the decipherer "ma in ciò").
- "prudentia [?sua] in ciò": 9 7 1 7 6 6 1 2 4 0 1 1 4 0 2 6 0 8 2 5 — "1 1 4" gives t/u t/u a, "sua" needs 5 1 4.
- End: 0 8 3 7 3 8 3 9 3 8 9 3 filler.Translation
# R102 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher, summer 1569) Same holes as R102_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. In the public letter I have written more mildly of Cardinal [Espinosa] than His Holiness has in truth spoken of him and of his bad conduct; but I want you to know, for your own information, that His Holiness ordered me to let Your Lordship know that the Cardinal fails in many things to do the office he should with the King in the service of this Holy See, so that His Holiness has judged him unworthy of the dignity he holds, and has said at times that he [?did not] regret having made him cardinal. But if one could hope for amendment in him, it would be well to let him know it; but in this Your Lordship will act as you think fits the time and the persons, leaving it to your [?own] prudence.
R115 (ASV, Segreteria di Stato, Spagna 6/II, item 13, f. 641r (DECODE R115), unknown) read in part
Two months after asking (30 November) for the royal nomination of Francisco de Reinoso, the Pope's scalco, to the see of Monreale, with the transfer of the pensions on the archdeaconry of Toledo, the nuncio is to press Philip II for a speedy dispatch.
Builds coherent sentences, but under the read bar of 95% of words read as sense (88% here); the holes are marked in the reading.
Transcription
#CATALOG NAME: Segr. Stato Spagna 6_II\13 #IMAGE NAME: 641r.jpg #TRANSCRIBER NAME: Midas #DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION: October 17, 2016 #TRANSCRIPTION TIME: 62 min. #IMAGE NAME: 641r.jpg 5 8 7 2 5 2 0 4 0 5 0 7 0 4 4 6 5 4 6 7 7 2 6 5 0 7 1 4 0 2 6 5 2 0 5 5 6 5 0 4 1 4 1 2 2 5 0 7 2 6 5 1 6 2 8 7 6 0 2 0 9 0 7 5 1 6 5 6 0 7 2 8 6 7 8 4 7 6 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 6 0 6 5 2 6 0 7 2 0 1 0 1 0 4 4 6 5 2 2 6 4 1 2 5 6 6 0 7 6 4 4 0 2 0 9 6 5 4 0 7 2 0 2 5 6 7 6 4 4 6 0 2 6 0 5 0 2 5 5 6 4 0 7 2 0 7 5 6 3 7 6 6 8 6 5 8 5 0 7 6 0 7 6 2 6 5 5 5 0 5 8 4 4 8 5 0 5 6 3 7 6 1 5 0 7 2 0 2 0 1 0 0^. 0 2 4 0 9 5 6 6 5 5 1^. 0 8 0 7 2 0 9 5 1 6 7 6 0 1 7 4 6 5 3 6 7 2 7 6 0 4 6 0 9 6 6 5 2 5 6 2 0 2 0 9 0 4 1 6 1 4 0 2 2 9 5 5 1 6 5 1 4 0 4 7 2 0 9 7 2 4 8 5 6 4 1 5 0 7 2 0 1 5 4 6 7 5 0 5 5 9 7 4 0 4 4 0 2 6 7 6 5 2 2 4 0 2 0 9 6 5 4 4 1 2 5 4 6 7 5 2 2 0 1^. 0 6? 0 7 6 4 0 1 6 7 5 0 1 4 4 5 7 6 0 7 2 0 6 5 5 0 7 2 2 0 9 0 2 0 6 0 9 0 9 0 2 5 0 4 1 1 1 5 3 2 6 5 0 9 0 7 0 2 0 4 4 8 1 6 4 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 1 5 4 1 1 5 0 2 0 9 0 2 5 0 6 6 0 7 2 4 0 4 4 0 2 6 7 6 5 2 2 4 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 6 0 4 0 1 0 9 0 2 0 6 0 2 4 6 2 0 9 0 7 2 0 9 4 7 4 4 7 6 6 0 9 0 3 0 1 0 3^. 0 8 0 9 7 2 2 4 9 5 1 7 4 0 4 1 6 7 6 6 0 8 1 5 6 4 0 5 8 4 5 2 5 6 6 0 2 6 5 1 4 6 7 5 4 2 0 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 9 7 6 5 1 4 0 6 5 9 6 7 2 1 2 5 6 6 0 9^. 0 8 0 4 4 0 8 5 5 4 0 2 0 6 0 1 4 7 4 0 2 6 0 2 6 3 2 6 2 1 5 0 0^. 0 4 1 2 5 4 7 2 2 0 9 5 2 0 9 0 4 6 9 7 2 2 6 0 7 6 4 4 0 7 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 0 5 1 4 0 3^. 0 8 0 4 4 0 6 0 2 0 7 6 0 4 1 8 2 4 4 2 0 9 5 2 2 0 9 0 3 0 1 4 5 0 1 7 4 1 4 0 7 2 0 8 5 5 1 4 0 1 0 1 0 5 2 0 5 2 0 5 4 1 2 5 3 4 7 4 0 1^. 0 8 0 2 0 9 0 5 2 0 5 6 3 1 2 1 2 0 5 0 2 7 0 9 0 2 6 0^. 2 0 2 0 9 0 9 4 7 6 7 4 6 5 0 2 2 3 4 2 5 7 2 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 9 3 7 3 8 0^. 9 0^. 7 3
Decryption
# R115: copied verbatim from decrypt_raw.txt (output of `python decrypt.py`: George Lasry's reconstructed key, DECODE DOC_*_D32xx, Oct 2020, applied by this project's beam search with the it-cinquecento model). Unspaced; [WORD] = nomenclator, [NN.] = dotted group not in Lasry's list; the run at the end of each page is padding. == R115 641r.jpg (758 items, -1.80/item) scrisiaoralesandrieortlinsisonolultimodinouembre[CHE]douesedicercadel[RE]innomedittaanominationedellipesariisedelleinsisonadidonfrencescoderemessoscalcosegretor[CON]tiapones[51.]cripoteretransferirelepensioni[CHE]aueuaimpostesularipriaconatodiuolerosopralamedesimaipesaauisandoim[01.]edeluerstaloredinosdi[CHE]mezzioauutofin[QUI]dialcunattauoluto[CHE]ionedillamedesimacomisione[SUA SANTITA][QUELLE]nman[CHE]diparlare[QUEL]fu[03.]cprimapotralundenbuonaocasioneinstandoli[PER]laprestaespeditione[09.]calcosa[NON]tarlininfinitoauisariipo[CHE]leprimerelarisolutionsua[03.]caleirelucialipoi[CHE]guastratadicostattoisisatisfara[01.]c[CHE]siseguitioi[QUELLO]m[60.]i[CHE]pareranomigliodi[SUA MAESTA]uzfrf[80.][90.]dg
Reading
# R115 — Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio Castagna, cipher of [Rome, January 1569] (Spagna 6/II/13, f. 641r): reading Rests on: the contemporary decipherment on a half-sheet bound with the cipher (`R115_decifrato_f641bis.txt`, DECODE cleartext image DOC_R115_D1340), found 23 Oct 2026 (r2g), and on the figures, read word by word against it (`python reread_aless_align.py decode/DOC_R115_D1685_1685.txt 641r.jpg texts/R115_reading.md`). The decipherer's draft is fast and loose; where it and the figures differ the figures are followed: "ricercare" (he "ricercai"), "et il consenso ancora" (he "il [assenso] anchora"), "che haveva imposte" (he "et gravezza imposte"), "avisandomi [?ancora] del vero [?…]", "non manchi di parlarne con Re", "et avisarmi poi", "la tratta di costà", "per quelli mezi che pareranno migliori a Re". Code values: 6020 causa / negocio (as in R99), 2010 here where the decipherer wrote "N.S." (the Pope's scalco; elsewhere 2010 is the Emperor: noted, not resolved), 4050 not identified, 9070 where he wrote "risposta". The person is Francisco de Reinoso, Pius V's scalco segreto, named to the see of Monreale (Sicily, a royal nomination) and later bishop of Córdoba. Date: the clear letters on the record are of January 1572, but the content (the request made "two months ago, the last of November") fits the Monreale nomination of 1568-69; the record's own dating (Spagna 6/II, item 13, 1569) is kept. Marks: [?word] partly carried, […] unread, [word] supplied, [NNNN] an unidentified code. ## Reading Scrissi a [4050] [?d'Alesandrino] dua mesi sono, l'ultimo di novembre, che dovese ricercare a Re in nome di N.S. la nominatione della chiesa di Monreale in persona di don [?Francesco] de Reinoso, scalco segreto di [2010], et il consenso ancora di potere transferire le pensioni che haveva imposte sul archidiaconato di Toledo sopra la medesima chiesa, avisandomi [?ancora] del vero [?…]; di [?…] che non havendo io havuto fino [?…] [9070] alcuna, N.S. ha voluto che io ne dia la medesima commissione a V.S., che non manchi di parlarne con Re [?…] prima potrà haverne buona occasione, instandoli per la presta espeditione, acciò la cosa non vada in infinito, et avisarmi poi […] della risolution sua. [?…] la causa de [?…] […] [?la] tratta di costà N.S. si [?…] satisfarà, ancora che si seguiti per quelli mezi che pareranno migliori a Re. ## Notes on the figures - "Scrissi a [4050] [?d'Alesandrino]": 5 8 7 2 5 2 0 4 0 5 0 7 0 4 4 6 5 4 6 7 7 2 6 5. The decipherer: "Scritta a Mons.re [?…] Commendatore d'Alessandrino". 4050 not identified. - "dua mesi sono, l'ultimo di novembre": 7 1 4 2 6 5 2 5 5 6 5 4 1 4 1 2 2 5 7 2 6 5 1 6 2 8 7 6. - "che dovese ricercare a Re in nome di N.S. la nominatione": 2090 7 5 1 6 5 6 7 2 8 6 7 8 4 7 6 4 3010 2 6 6 5 2 6 7 2 1010 4 4 6 5 2 2 6 4 1 2 5 6 6. - "della chiesa di Monreale in persona di don [?Francesco] de Reinoso": 7 6 4 4 2 0 9 6 5 4 7 2 2 5 6 7 6 4 4 6 2 6 5 0 2 5 5 6 4 7 2 7 5 6 3 7 6 6 8 6 5 8 5 7 6 7 6 2 6 5 5 5 — "Francesco" with 6 for a (frencesco), "Reinoso" with 5 5 5. - "scalco segreto di [2010]": 5 8 4 4 8 5 5 6 3 7 6 1 5 7 2 0 2 0 1 0 — the decipherer "di N.S."; 2010 is the Emperor in R93 and R96 (decipherments). Left as the code. - "et il consenso ancora": 0^. 0 2 4 0 9 5 6 6 5 5 1^. 0 8 (9 = con; dotted 1 + 8 = ancora, as in R94/R98). - "potere transferire le pensioni che haveva imposte sul archidiaconato di Toledo sopra la medesima chiesa": 9 5 1 6 7 6 1 7 4 6 5 3 6 7 2 7 6 4 6 9 6 6 5 2 5 6 2 2090 4 1 6 1 4 2 2 9 5 5 1 6 5 1 4 4 7 2 0 9 7 2 4 8 5 6 4 1 5 7 2 1 5 4 6 7 5 5 5 9 7 4 4 4 2 6 7 6 5 2 2 4 2 0 9 6 5 4 (209 = "chi" in archidiaconato and chiesa). - "avisandomi [?ancora] del vero [?…]": 4 1 2 5 4 6 7 5 2 2 1^. 0 6? 7 6 4 1 6 7 5 | 1 4 4 5 7 6 — the dotted group read as ancora only if the transcription's "6?" is an 8 (the decipherer "anchora"); "1 4 4 5 7 6" (v a l s|o r e) not read. - "di [?…] che non havendo io havuto fino [?…] [9070] alcuna": 7 2 6 5 5 7 2 2 2090 2060 9090 2 5 4 1 1 1 5 3 2 6 5 9 0 7 0 2 4 4 8 1 6 4 — "6 5 5 7 2 2" not read; 9070 where the decipherer has "risposta"; the 2 after it not read. - "N.S. ha voluto che io ne dia la medesima commissione a V.S.": 1010 4 1 5 4 1 1 5 2090 2 5 6 6 7 2 4 4 4 2 6 7 6 5 2 2 4 8 5 2 2 5 2 5 6 6 4 1090. - "che non manchi di parlarne con Re [?…] prima potrà haverne buona occasione": 2060 2 4 6 2 0 9 7 2 9 4 7 4 4 7 6 6 9 3010 3^. 8 9 7 2 2 4 9 5 1 7 4 4 1 6 7 6 6 8 1 5 6 4 5 8 4 5 2 5 6 6 — the dotted 3 + 8 not read (the decipherer "questo"). - "instandoli per la presta espeditione, acciò la cosa non vada in infinito": 2 6 5 1 4 6 7 5 4 2 5020 4 4 9 7 6 5 1 4 6 5 9 6 7 2 1 2 5 6 6 9^. 8 4 4 8 5 5 4 2060 1 4 7 4 2 6 2 6 3 2 6 2 1 5 — dotted 9 + 8 read as the decipherer's "acciò". - "et avisarmi poi […] della risolution sua": 0^. 0 4 1 2 5 4 7 2 2 9 5 2 | 9 4 6 9 7 2 2 6 | 7 6 4 4 7 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 5 1 4 — "9 4 6 9 7 2 2 6" not read (the decipherer "ammettermi poi la"). - "[?…] la causa de [?…]": 3^. 8 4 4 6020 7 6 4 1 8 2 4 4 2 — the decipherer "al negocio de' [Lucadi?]"; the name not read. - "[…] [?la] tratta di costà N.S. si [?…] satisfarà": 9 5 2 2 9 3 0 1 | 4 5 1 7 4 1 4 7 2 8 5 5 1 4 1010 5 2 5 2 5 4 1 2 5 3 4 7 4 — "9 5 2 2 9 3 0 1" not read; the second "si" (5 2) not placed. - "ancora che si seguiti per quelli mezi che pareranno migliori a Re": 1^. 8 2090 5 2 5 6 3 1 2 1 2 5 0 2 7090 2 6 0^. 2 2090 9 4 7 6 7 4 6 5 2 2 3 4 2 5 7 2 4 3010 (the decipherer "messi" for mezi).
Translation
# R115 — English (Cardinal Alessandrino to the nuncio, cipher, [January 1569]) Same holes as R115_reading.md. Modern spelling; codes as names. I wrote to [4050] [?of Alessandrino] two months ago, on the last day of November, that he should ask the King in His Holiness's name for the nomination to the church of Monreale in the person of Don [?Francisco] de Reinoso, private steward of [2010], and also the consent to be able to transfer the pensions that he had laid on the archdeaconry of Toledo onto the same church, informing me [?also] of the truth […]; of […] that, as I have had no [9070] so far, His Holiness wished me to give Your Lordship the same commission, so that you do not fail to speak of it with the King […] first you can have a good occasion, pressing him for the speedy dispatch, so that the matter does not drag on for ever, and then to let me know […] his decision. […] the cause of […] […] the trade from there His Holiness will […] satisfy, even if it is pursued by those means that seem best to the King.
Key: key.md
06 Sources
- DECODE records R93–R102 and R115 (images and transcriptions; login).
- George Lasry, reconstructed key “ASV – S6”, 24 October 2020, attached to the records.
- The contemporary decipherments, Spagna 6/I ff. 8, 45r, 58r, 80, 90r–v, 139, after 169, 280r and 307, and 6/II with f. 641, among the records’ DECODE cleartext images.
- Luciano Serrano, Correspondencia diplomática entre España y la Santa Sede durante el pontificado de S. Pío V, Madrid 1914 (not consulted).
Decoder, notes and decoded pages: targets/alessandrino1568/. Page images are not reproduced.