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DOGE PASQUALE MALIPIERO (1392-1462). Three letters to the humanist Niccolò Sagundino (d.1464), 13 April, 5 May and 20 August (??) 1462; [and] Doge Cristoforo MORO (1390-1471). Three letters to the same, 14 May, 23 August and 23 October 1462. In Latin, on vellum, various sizes, approximately 240 x 335mm, integral address panels, contemporary dockets, also dated and numbered in a slightly later hand (marginal slits where opened by the recipient, occasional staining and holes). Letters to the Venetian ambassador to Pope Pius II, on the Turkish threat to Hungary, the excommunication of the Duke of Austria, and other matters of state . The letter of 5 May 1462 (written on the day of Doge Pasquale Malipiero's death) asks anxiously about the papal response to the Ottoman invasion of Wallachia, urging that the Italian states support the King of Hungary (Matthias Corvinus) with a subsidy, and asking Sagundino to negotiate the Venetian share of the subsidy, starting at 3,000 ducats per month, but if necessary going as high as 5,000 for six months. The letter of 14 May, by Malipiero's successor Cristoforo Moro, concerns the excommunication of Duke Sigismund of Austria (for an attack on Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa): the interdiction is harming the trade of Verona (a Venetian dominion), and Sagundino is to request that they be given the same exemption granted to Mantua. On 23 October, the Doge directs Sagundino to raise the matter of the province of Ljubljana, which it is reported may be separated from the diocese of Aquileia (under Venetian control). The letters of 13 April and 23 August relate to a dispute with one Francesco de Tergesto, who is causing harm to Venetian citizens, and especially to Andrea Bembo canon of Padua, on whom 'violence and injury were committed at the instance of the said lord Francesco de Tergesto': Sagundino is to make representations to Nicholas of Cusa, or to the pope himself, to restrain Francesco; the letter of 23 August returns to the same matter, urging that Zacharias Natale be accepted as a compromise candidate for the disputed canonship. The letter of 20 August requests that the pope confirm Jacobo de Guarnerii in his parish in Venice: bizarrely, although this letter is issued under the name of Pasquale Malipiero, this must be a scribal error, as the letter is clearly dated (and docketed by the recipient) more than five months after his death.