The History of Tuscany From the Earliest Era Comprising An Account of the Revi
The History of Tuscany From the Earliest Era Comprising An Account of the Revi
Lorenzo Pignotti
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In the three latter years of his life, having retired to the castle of Cortesiano, . He was visited by the most respectable persons for their birth, the offices they held, and the learning they possessed. Among them were the Duke Hercules of Ferrara, the Duke of Urbino, Alexander Farnese, afterwards Paul III. , the Cardinal Francis Soderini, who enjoyed the elegant society of a man, who, full of the most honourable attainments, knew how to clothe them with that familiar tone, and enounce them w...ith that facility and perspicuity, which delight the more because they weary not the listeners. A handsome library and a printing-house were the solid ornaments of his Cortesiano, where he died very prema- turely in the forty-fifth year of his age, in the year 1520. He was apostolic secretary ; had he lived he would have been probably cardinal, and the man who, to universal learning added so much prudence, modesty, and reli- * Such is the opinion of Poliziano, " Certe inest operi quaedarn super istius sutatis captuin quasi maturitas.
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