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Members of Francesco Patrizi's Family Appearing in His Letters and Epigrams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leslie F. Smith
Leslie F. Smith*
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University of Oklahoma
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It is hard to believe that Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1413-94) stopped writing letters when, after he was ejected from his governorship of Foligno (1461-64), he reluctantly, one imagines, took up residence in his diocese of Gaeta. His letters, after he left Foligno, do not seem to have been preserved, so that, as I have pointed out in a previous article, his Epigrams are the most fertile and practically the only source for his activities in the last thirty years of his life.

His Letters, all from the Foligno period, deal overwhelmingly with his duties as Papal Governor, which he seems to have fulfilled most faithfully, but there are enough private letters mingled with them to throw light on the lives of his own family and those of some friends. The present article will be limited to his family.

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Studies
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , Spring 1974 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1974

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References

1 ‘Notice of the Epigrammata of Patrizi, Francesco, Bishop of Gaeta,’ Studies in the Renaissance, 15 (1968)Google Scholar, 92-143, spec. ref. p. 92.

2 Florence Biblioteca Nazionale, Nuovi Acquisti 382, which will hereafter be abbreviated to F, fol. 36 (ca. Nov. 24, 1461).

3 F fol. 40vand fol. 40 respectively, both of Dec. 11, 1461.

4 F fol. 42 (Jan. 11, 1462).

5 F fols. 64v-65v (May 16, sc. 1463). The year is justified by the letter just preceding this.

6 As in n. 5.

7 Smith, Studies, p. 140, no. 286.

8 F fol. 96 (Apr. 12, 1464).

9 D. Bassi, ‘L'Epitome di Quintiliano di Patrizi, Francesco senese,’ Rivista difilologia e d’ istruzione classica, 22 (1894), 385-470Google Scholar, spec. ref. p. 396. See, however, last paragraph of this article.

10 Bassi, p. 401.

11 F fols. 20-21 (Sep. 15, sc. 1461). The year is justified by several letters near it, which show Patrizi in Assisi August-September 1461.

12 Mittarellius, G. B., Bibliotheca Codicum Manuscriptorum Monasterii S. Michaelis prope Murianum (Venice, 1789)Google Scholar, because of the reading in MS. no. 3507, fol. 18v thought that Patrizi had a son called Gregorio.

13 Epigrammata no. 226.

14 Smith, Leslie F., ‘The Poems of Franciscus Patricius from Vatican Manuscript Chigi J VI 233,’ Manuscripta, 12 (1968), 17–28 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 F fol. 9T (June 17, 1461).

16 F fols. 97-97v (November [sic] 16, 1464).

17 Epigrammata no. 104,1. 3: Vixdum bis denos ac quinque peregerat annos.

18 Epigrammata nos. 103-108.

19 Epigrammata nos. 94 and 118.

20 F fol. 27 (Oct. 10, 1461). The physician was Ludovicus Spoletanus. A certain Iulius Patricius was to receive certain letters and copies, which were important to Francesco Patrizi. It is implied that the recipient is not in Siena. This second fact makes it virtually certain that Iulius is not Patrizi's son Giulio, F fol. 24v (Oct. 4, sc. 1461).

21 F fol. 89v (Feb. 15, 1464).

22 Epigrammata no. 32; see Gordan MS. 153, fols. n v - 12 .

23 Epigrammata no. 214.

24 For Niccolo Perotti at Assisi see Smith, Studies, p. 106, n. 37, and for a selection of his Epigrams see Codex Perotinus. 25 Epigrammata no. 113.

26 Epigrammata nos. 219, 238, and 312, respectively.

27 Studies, pp. 97-98.

28 Rome, 1733, ref. pp. 63-64.1 owe knowledge of this book, which I have not seen, to Rino Avesani, ‘Per le biblioteca di Agostino Patrizi Piccolomini’ (Melanges Eugene Tisserand VI, Studi e testi, Vol. 236 [1964], 1-87, at p. 17, n. 81).