Title:
Xaverio/Saverio Manetti to Carl Linnaeus
Type:
Image
Licence:
Contact [email protected]
Repository:
The Linnean Society of London
Collection:
Linnaean Correspondence
Reference number:
LC/10/19
Archival level:
Item
Date:
18 December 1756
Placement:
Volume 10: 27-28
Extent:
27-28
Description:
François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages had told Xaverio Manetti that Linnaeus had not yet received his letter [this letter has not come down to us]. Therefore, Linnaeus does not know that he has been elected a member of Florentine Botanical Society [Società Botanica Fiorentina]. Manetti is very surprised. He has written to Linnaeus but there has been no reply [see above, this letter has not come down to us]. Before the previous spring Manetti had sent the seeds Linnaeus wished to receive. A few days ago he also sent some other things to Linnaeus through Sauvages [there are no letters preserved between Linnaeus and Sauvages during the autumn 1756]. In the future Manetti asks Linnaeus to tell him what he wishes to receive. Manetti congratulates Linnaeus on the many works he has published. He is sorry that there is such a great distance between him and Linnaeus. Linnaeus can send specimens to Manetti through Sauvages or Peter Bartels, a Dane who lives in Livorno, or to Rick Van der Scholz who is a custodian at Schönbrunn in Vienna. Since Linnaeus’s works hardly reach Italy, they cannot be used by students. Manetti has therefore made a compendium of a number of Linnaeus’s works that deal with the sexual system and botanical terms, and added a list of genera from Linnaeus’s latest edition [Genera plantarum [...] editio quinta] Linnaeus will receive a copy of it. Manetti admires Linnaeus. That he should disagree with Linnaeus is more the work of others. Manetti is prepared to send Linnaeus what he desires.
Sender:
Manetti, Xaverio/Saverio
Sent from location:
Florentiae [Firenze, Italy]
Recipient:
Linnaeus, Carl
Transcription:
Amplissimo Viro longeque Celeberrimo Carolo Linnaeo Botanicorum Nostri Aevi facile Principi Equiti, Archiatro, et Consiliario Regio &c. S[alutem] P[lurimum] D[icit] Xaverius Manetti Clarissimus Sauvagesius communis amicus noster Te nondum meas recepisse Litteras humanissime monet, neque a me factum fuisse certiorem quod fueris jam cooptatus, uti nunc es, inter Academiae nostrae Socios. Remiror hoc maxime, etenim semel aut bis in anno Tibi scripsi immo essent mihi ducendi de pectore questus, quum jamdiu nullas a Te Epistolas exceperim. Antequam superius ver iniret nonnulla ex illis quae poposceras a me semina misi, nonnullaque alia paucis post diebus Sauvagesio mittere curavi ut tutius atque opportune ad Te perferrentur; Tibique eodem ipso tempore nuntiavi inter Botanicos Socios plenis suffragiis esse relatum. Hoc anno iterum nonnulla mitto semina, neque audeo plures mittere plantas etenim paucas arbitror, aut nullas, Te desideraturum. In posterum melius Tibi obsequturus indices velim quas cupias, conabor enim manibus, pedibusque eas conparare Tibique illico mittere. Accipio Te Vir Praestantissime in dies omni studio ac cura singulari publici juris facere plures Libros: Ideo summopere gaudeo, ac Tibi gratulor, atque utinam mea patria non esset tam divisa ac longe dissita ut facilius frui possem Tuis studiis, et eximiis Libris, quos libere fateor sero me accepturum. Sauvagesius ad sperandum Tuos libros me tantum inlexerat, praecipue postremos, sed nondum quid acciderit scire potui. Si quid mihi destinaveris mihi mittas oro, eidemque Sauvagesio commendes velim, sive Consuli Dom.o Bartels Danico Liburni commoranti, vel a M[onsieu]r Rick Vander Scholz Viridarii Caesarei Viennensis vulgo a Shönbrun Custodi. Singuli laudati Viri curabunt omni diligentia ut ad me perferantur. Quum vix Tui praestantissimi Libri in manus nostras perveniant utilitati communi nostrorum Studiosorum consulens nonnulla opera Tua tum ad Systema Sexuale spectantia, tum ad voces botanicas quibus uteris, summatim collegi, adjecique seriem generum juxta postremam editionem, atque hac ipsa occasione tum me, tum Te vindicare coram omnibus volui a variis Publici vocibus ac popularibus auris. Patefeci enim animum erga Te amicissimum. Quidquid contra Te sentire videbar aliorum potius culpa factum fuit. Memoratae huius opellae quamprimum mittere decrevi exemplar. Interea siqua sunt quae ex me optes a me ingenue petas cupio; e vestigio enim mittentur, quum mihi cordi sit Tibi obsequi. Vale, mihique fave Scribebam Florentiae. Die XVIII. Decembris Anno MDCCLVI. [Address, added at the bottom of fol 28r]. Clariss[i]mo Carolo Linnaeo Upsaliam.
Previous reference number:
L2121
Condition note:
Seal tear. Small piece red wax adhering 28 verso. R.h.edge both sheets - small tears and crumpled.
