In a long letter written from London on May 19, 1517, to Alvise Foscari in Venice, Nicolo Sagudino describes a number of incidents showing how Italian musicians were faring at the court of Henry VIII. Among those he mentions were the Venetian organist, Dionisio Memo; and a lutenist, Zuan Piero. Memo had composed a vocal quartet for the king with a Latin title beginning:

He had also brought to the court ‘a lad, so excellent a performer on the lute, that his majesty never wearied of listening to him’. The lad's identity is unknown, but the king's delight at his skill on the lute was the despair of Zuan Piero, who thought of returning to Italy because of it.

The ‘gentle’ Dametas, on seeing the Bear, thrust himself into a bush as far as he could go and, on Dorus' pushing him and bidding him be of good courage, thought Doras was the Bear and was with difficulty persuaded that the Bear was indeed dead. Then, like ‘a man of Revengefull spirite, hee gave the deade body many a wounde, swearing by muche yt was pitty, suche Beastes shoulde bee suffered in a Comon Welthe’. Finally, with immoderate joy ‘as before with feare (for his harte was framed never to bee withoute a passyon) hee went by his fayre charge, daunsing, pyping, and singing, till they all come to the presence of the carefull Company’, so near ‘as hee might bee hearde of the Duke’.