Copernicus to Bishop Dantiscus
Frombork, 8 June 1536
Original: Czartoryski Library, Kraków, manuscript 2713, pp. 1-2
Nicholas Copernicus (Nicolaus Copernicus) confirms to John Dantiscus, Bishop of Chełmno, the reception of a letter in which the Bishop, citing the intimacy between them from the times of their youth, was inviting him for the wedding of his relative, as his close friend. Copernicus feels obliged to accept this invitation, however, because of the activities which the Bishop of Warmia, Maurice Ferber, entrusted to him, he is not able to leave Frombork, Therefore, he asks for a vindication of his absence and for keeping of the previous opinion about his person.
Further reading
- Biskup M., Regesta Copernicana (Wrocław, 1973).
- Nicholas Copernicus Minor Works (Warsaw-Cracow, 1985).