>I am writing an article on Leon Battista Alberti and
>I find that after his studies in law at Bologna, he became an Apostolic
>Abbreviator. Exactly what is/was that office? What duties did it entail?
>What did it have to do with the Curia, for whom he worked?
Milton was *Secretary of Briefs to Princes* to the Commonwealth
Government ca 1650. Was Alberti making ABstracts of BRIEFS ie a sort
of recording clerk?
This is a guess: I do not know the answer.
a.c.
Anselm Cramer OSB
Ampleforth Abbey, York
GB - YO6 4EN
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