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638] TO HENRY AFINIUS 61 aliquod argumentum philosophicum aut medicum ; quod posterius fortasse rectius conueniret, Attamen quicquid sensero tibi cordi esse, id studiose exequar. Bene vale, amicorum syncerissime. 639. From FRANCESCO CHIEREGATO. Deventer MS. 91, f. 183. Antwerp. LB. App. 170. 28 August 1517. [Francesco Chieregato (+ 6 Dee. 1539) belonged to the Chiericati family of Vicenza. After studying law at Padua he obtained service first with Alidosi (Ep. 296. 103 n.), and then 1512-3 with Schinner (Ep. 447. 596 n.). In Feb. 1514 he was in Spain, probably on papal business ; and in Dec. 1515 he was sent as nuncio to England, arriving in London 13 April 1516. After a quarrel with Wolsey in December he received orders to return to Rome, but did not at once comply ; visiting Ireland in the summer of 1517. He was again employed as nuncio, to Spain 1518-9, to Portugal 1521, to the Diet of Nuremberg 1522-3, and to Poland 1528 ; the intervals of his time being spent at Mantua, in the service of the Gonzagas, and at Rome, whither he tried to persuade Erasmus to follow him. From 7 Sept. 1522 until his death he was Bishop of Teramo in the Abruzzi. See a life by B. Morsolin in Atti del Academia di Vicenza iii (1873), pp. 121-237; also Sanuto and Giustinian. The month-date of this letter perhaps needs correction; for Morsolin prints a letter of Chieregato dated 28 Aug. from Middelburg. ] F. CHIEREGATVS DOMINO ERASMO RO. S. SaLvvs sis, doctissime et eruditissime Erasme. Cum ex Britanico sudore ad Vrbem Romanam fugerem, euenit forte vt Antwerpiam appellerem; quo mox vt venissem, s(c)iscitatus sum vbinam terrarum viueret Erasmus? Responsum est a quibusdam amicis, in oppido te esse apud quendam Petrum Egidium, reip. Anwerpiensis a secretis : quo nuncio adeo iocundus fui vt me beatum fere putarem. Mox aedes Petri inuisi vt te salutarem ac inuiserem, peteremque si quid a Pontifice exoptares quod ab amico expleri posset. Sed heus, nescio quo fato delusus sum ; nunciatum quippe est pridie te Louanium ad tua studia rediisse. Quod me plurimum (potuit) pro mea in te obseruantia offendere; auebam enim quam maxime, quoad me tenuisset Antwerpia (paululum id quidem erat), tua dulci et iucundissima consuetudine frui, etiam praeter summam doctrinam seriis et iocis festiuissima. Sed quando te mihi sors negauit, facere non potui quin saltem te meis litteris [non] salutarem, rogaremque vt aliquando tenuis amici opera et commodo vtaris ; qui tuis rarissimis diuinissimisque propemodum virtutibus adeo subscribit fauetque, vt nihil praeclarius ducat quam amari ab Erasmo et in suo esse aere censeri. 639. 1. subito post cum ab amanuensi deletum inclusit LB. 10. potuit addidi in fine versus. 11. offendere MS. : offendit LB. 638, 17. medicum] The Encom. Medi- account of this outbreak, in a letter to cinae was ultimately chosen ; see Ep. 799. Mantua, 6 Aug.; Brown ii. 945. 639. 2. sudore] Chieregato gives a full 4. in oppido] Cf. Ep. 622. 36. en =I ox
