Letter 6018: Your Greatness has done what both honor and affection required, and I write to acknowledge it with the gratitude it...

Your Greatness has done what she owes both to her holy character and to her blood: that she does not allow the memory of kinship to languish in the torpor of silence. In whatever part of the world one lives, affinity lives also, nor are those chained together by the bond of kinship separated by regions. Believe me, holy love does not perish, nor does nature suffer any loss through the divisions of journeys. For know that your son-in-law bestows upon me so much love that no recompense is adequate in return. For the rest, my lady, receiving the affection of the greeting owed, I pray to God that in the good of our mutual happiness he may deign to bestow the occasion of seeing you, so that under welcome conversation our pious desires may be relieved.

XVIII. ENNODIVS DOMINICAE. Fecit magnitudo uestra quod et sanctis moribus suis debet et sanguini, ut propinquitatis memoriam silentii non patiatur torpore languescere. in quacumque terrarum parte uiuit adfinitas, nec separantur regionibus parentelae catena sociati credite mihi, dilectio sancta non deperit nec ullum patitur per diuisiones itinerum natura dispendium. nam generum uestrum tantum mihi noueritis caritatis inpendere, quantum ad uicissitudinem nulla satisfactio existat idonea. quod superest, domina mi, accipientes debitae salutationis affectum, deum precor, ut in bono mutuae felicitatis uidendi uos occasionem conferre dignetur, quatenus sub confabulatione uotiua pia desideria subleuentur. XVII. 2 episcopo om. T 3 domini b atefanioni B, Frefanionis b flli B 4 iteneris BVX 6 conpessat L* (n in m et 88 in ne corr. m. ant.) 8 quatinus LTV . XVIII. 12 dfiice LT, domniae B 14 patiatoc B 16 turpore B languiscere B 16 parentrtlae B b 17 4eperit V, deberet Bb 18 diuisiones scripsi, diuisionia BTYb, diuersionis L iteinerum BY, itinora Sirm. 21 mihi BL V aocipientfs BLb 23 quatinus T