| Submission declined on 25 February 2024 by Johannes Maximilian (talk). This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.
Where to get help
How to improve a draft
You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Editor resources
|  |
The position of Latin Secretary to some great churchman or prince had a long and distinguished history: Jerome had been the Latin Secretary for Pope Damasus I.[1] The position was important but not lucrative, unless a stepping-stone to other offices,[2] and not limited to clergy. The role could span translator, speech-writer, diplomat, minor deputy, penman, expeditor and librarian and, by its nature, introduced the secretary into the network of other Latin secretaries. A notable Latin secretary who interacted extensively with such a network was Erasmus of Rotterdam.
It was known by many names, but the distinguishing mark is it added lustre to the master to employ a humanist of high literary capability. Many Latin secretaries were poets or writers including, outside this period, Andrew Marvell and John Milton (both for Oliver Cromwell).
1400s edit
- Juan de Mena - King Juan II de Castilla
- Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati - Pope Calistus III
- Poggio Bracciolini - seven Popes Boniface IX to Nicholas V
- Maffeo Vegio - Pope Eugenius IV
- Lorenzo Valla - King Alfonso V of Aragon
- Leon Battista Alberti - Roman Curia
- Bartolomeo Scala - Medici Florence
- Thomas Beckington - King Henry VI of England
- Aeneas Silvius (Pope Pius II) - Antipope Felix V, Emperor Frederick III], Pope Eugenius IV
- Alfonso de Palencia - Henry IV of Castile
1500s edit
- Juan de Vergara - Archbishop Ximenez de Cisneros, Archbishop Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca
- Venclovas Mikolajaitis - Sigismund I the Old
- Pietro Carmeliano - King Henry VII
- Guillaume Budé - King Louis XII
- Erasmus- Henry, Bishop of Cambrai
- Pietro Bembo - Pope Leo X
- Jacopo Sadoleto - Pope Leo X
- Richard Pace - King Henry VIII
- Andrea Ammonio - Lord Mountjoy, King Henry VII, King Henry VIII
- Hieronymus Emser - Cardinal Raymond Peraudi
- Cornelius Grapheus - Antwerp
- Diego Gracián de Alderete - King Philip II of Spain
- Johannes Secundus - Bishop of Utrecht, Emperor Charles V
- Dominicus Lampsonius - Cardinal Reginald Pole
- Juan de Valdés, Alfonso de Valdés - Emperor Charles V
- Peter Vannes - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, King Henry VIII, King Edward I
- Johannes May - Ferdinand I
- Costanzo Tassone - Bishop Charles Borromeo
- Cardinal Silvio Antoniano - Archbishop Charles Borromeo
- Roger Ascham - Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary I
- Martín de Ávila - Spanish clergy and royalty
- Philipp Gundelius - Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
- Justus Lipsius - Cardinal Granvella
- John Wolley (MP) - Elizabeth I
- Gentian Hervetus - Cardinal Cervini
- Jan Łaski - Sigismund II
- Filipo Bonamici - Pope Pius VI, Pope Clement XIV
- Oliver Starkey - Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette
- Francisco Cervantes de Salazar - Cardinal García de Loaysa
- Antonio Possevino - Jesuit Superior General Everard Mercurian
- Thomas Smith - Queen Elizabeth I
- John Cecil aka John Snowden - Cardinal William Allen
- Robert Turner - Archduke Ferdinand I
- Daniel Hermann Borussus - imperial court, Vienna (1570w)
- John Joscelyn - Bishop Matthew Parker
- Henry Savile - Queen Elizabeth I
- Johann Barvitius - H.R.E Rudolph II