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>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 [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%