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Text of a letter from Atta Olivia Clemens, en route frooczy Sanct&039; Geres; written in Imperial Latin, carried by private courier and delivered nine days after it was dispatched

To oczy Sanct&039; Germain Franciscus, currently Grav Saint-Germain, Conte di San-Ger at the s of Atta Olivia Cle into France, and for that reason, this lettervehicle, aexercise, and for that reason I ask you to excuse any infelicities of style or execution When we stop this evening, I will engage a courier to carry this to you, in care of your printer in Bruges, and hope you will have it in good time

Yes, in spite of my earlier intentions, I have realized that it is prudent for me to be away from the Papal States just noith Charles and Cle to my horse farm near Orleans, in the hope that I may avoid some of the less pleasant develop the Christians, who cannot decide how best to deal with their faith, and are therefore killing one another over their doubts Magna Mater! how I hed little on the people of Ro as it was no imposition upon anyone

I ai Eso, has been taken in charge by the Church to be exa he wrote in one of his scholarly works has drawn the criticism of a Doh I cannot see how his explication on the possible iation could be heretical Sadly, at present I have only one real ally in the Papal Court, and I a his support at this time, for he, himself, is under scrutiny On the advice of Cardinal della Rovere, I have arranged to place er, and he has proular reports about Sanza Pari, which should be enough to alert me if any ed to learn as i Eso&039;s fate I aize for the blot in the previous line; this nib is giving out, and the coach is rocking heavily

Niklos Aulirios is re at Nepete until I send for him He will set up the care of your Roman estate as well as mine, and he will prepare a full report for you before he leaves Roma to come into France I aements-he has always been so in the past I have allocated funds for him to use, and I have drawn on the oczy may be kept properly, as you would wish

I do not yet kno long I will stay in France, but you may be sure that I will inform you when I have made up my mind on that point If the Spanish continue to war on all Protestants, then I may seek another part of the world entirely You kno to direct your er to find h your printer I ask you to keep me informed of your travels I would prefer to knohere you are rather than send four letters toward the cardinal points of the compass in the hope that you may receive one With that in mind, I bid you a safe and rapid journey north, and a swift resolution to the problems that have beset you

With my continual love,

Olivia

By my own hand en route to France, on this, the 21stday of September, 1530