Delle lettere familiari [...] Divise in tre parti, nelle quali ce ne sono molte di Negotii, Avvisi, et Complimenti gravissimi. Con due Sermoni Spirituali & tre Orationi del medesimo Autore. Nuovamente in questa terza impressione ricorrette

8vo; (8), 259, (1) leale. a⁸, A-Z⁸, Aa-Ii⁸, Kk⁴. Kk4 is a blank. Lacking leaves 70-88 (supplied in facsimile). With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary vellum.

Adams, L-495; Basso, p. 329; Edit 16, CNCE 24258; Quondam, pp. 301-302.

DEFINITIVE EDITION, containing all three parts, of Giovanni Battista Leoni's letters. The first part had appeared in 1592, the second together with the first in 1593, and the third part alone in 1596. They were all published at Venice by Giovanni Battista Ciotti.

The first part is dedicated by the author to Pietro Priuli, the second to Paolo, Nicolò, Girolamo, and Sebastiano Contarini; the third is addressed by Vincenzo Ludovici, pupil of Leoni, to the members of the literary circle (“mezzato”) of Giacomo Contarini and Jacopo Marcello (Venice, June 25, 1596).

“Certo la pratica media che sorte fuori dai tanti epistolari segretariali degli anni '90 è ben lungi dal porsi il problema di una resa criptica del potere e dei suoi misteri […] Per trovare qualcosa di diverso (ma non di nuovo) bisogna […] prendere in seria considerazione il grave spiritualismo controriformistico di Giovan Battista Leoni, faticosamente dispiegato in forma di lettere-trattatelli” (G. Da Pozzo, ed., Storia letteraria d'Italia. Il Cinquecento, Milano & Padova, 2007, III, pp. 1693-1694).

“E che il campo dei ‘libri di lettere' stia attraversando una fase critica, di trasformazioni profonde dei propri statuti comunicativi e insieme editoriali, è ampiamente documentato, oltre che da altri testi periferici […], da un testo molto composito e dalla storia editoriale piuttosto complessa: le Lettere familiari di Giovanni Battista Leoni, edite per la prima volta nel 1592. Non tanto perché producono ‘sermoni spirituali' e ‘orationi', ma perché nella terza parte (edita nel 1596: sempre più dentro la fase di transizione) presentano quella bipartizione tra lettere scritte a suo nome e a nome di altri che diventerà rituale nelle edizioni dei ‘libri di lettere' di tanti segretari, che ormai premono. Ma senza disperdere, comunque, i segni del proprio comunicativo della lettera: con i nomi, dunque, con le date” (A. Quondam, Dal “formulario” al “formulario”: cento anni di “libri di lettere”, in: “Le ‘carte messaggiere'. Retorica e modelli di comunicazione epistolare per un indice dei libri di lettere del Cinquecento”, Roma, 1981, p. 123).

The first and the second book contain respectively 145 and 48 letters, two of which are addressed to Leoni. The letters are grouped in alphabetical order by the recipient's first name or honorary title and then, for every recipient, in chronological order. The main recipients are Giovanni Mocenigo (38 letters), Girolamo Zeno (26), Giovanni Francesco Secchi (21), and Antonio Calbo (18). The letters are almost all dated between 1571 and 1591. “Dans l'une comme dans l'autre partie, chaque lettre n'a généralement pas moins d'une page et n'aborde qu'un sujet. Les nouvelles familières personelles (santé, carrière, voyages, souvenirs de jeunesse, amitiés) et les compliments (congratulations, recommandations, consolations) traités assez brièvement alternent avec des thèmes développés en plusieurs pages (la lecture des livres d'Histoire, l'écriture comparé à la parole, les fontaines, l'historique des années saintes, la Fortune, le secrétaire, les aventures burlesques au cours d'un voyage, les peintres, le ‘traslato', la peste à Venise, etc.). Ces lettres s'inscrivent dans une tradition; Leoni se réfère une fois à A. Caro. Son style est caracterisé par une familiarité souriante, un langage image […] mêlé à du latin, par une ou deux comparaisons filées” (J. Basso, Le genre épistolaire en langue italienne (1538-1662). Répertoire chronologique et analytique, Roma & Nancy, 1990, p. 328).

The third book is divided into two parts. The first contains 35 personal letters by Leoni disposed in hierarchical order by recipients (pope, kings, cardinals, common people). The letters are dated between 1584 and 1596. The last five letters are addressed to Vincenzo Ludovici, the author's pupil who edited the work and signed the dedication.

The second part contains 46 letters written by Leoni on behalf of Philippe de Lénoncourt (1527-1592), created cardinal in the year 1586. He  was royal counselor to King Henri III of France, preceptor of the Order of Saint-Esprit, and was elected bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in 1550. As cardinal he partecipated to the conclaves for the election of Urban VII, Gregory XIV, Innocent IV, and Clement VIII. The letters of this section are almost all addressed to other cardinals. Most of the letters are undated, but many of them contain a reference to the election of Lénoncourt and can therefore been considered written between 1586 and 1587. Only a very few are dated between 1587 and 1589.

(Book I:)

Venier, [Maffeo], Archbishop of Corfu. Venezia, May 3, 1583 (l. 1r)

id. Venezia, June 7, 1583 (l. 1v)

Visconti, [Gasparo], Archbiscop of Milan. Napoli, August 20, 1584 (l. 2r)

Coco abate. Todi, September 20, 1577 (l. 2v)

Graziani abate. Napoli, September 22, 1586 (l. 7r)

Arrighi, Alberto. Napoli, April 18, 1582 (l. 7v)

Calbo, Antonio. Roma, August 27, 1580 (l. 8r)

id. Roma, September 3, 1580 (l. 8v)

id. Roma, November 5, 1580 (l. 9r)

id. Roma, April 8, 1589 (l. 9v)

id. Roma, April 29, 1581 (l. 10r)

id. Roma, May 5, 1581 (l. 11r)

id. Napoli, May 13, 1581 (l. 11r)

id. Roma, June 30, 1581 (l. 12r)

id. Roma, July 15, 1581 (l. 12v)

id. Roma, July 15, 1589 (l. 13r)

id. Malta, October 18, 1581 (l. 13v)

id. Malta, February 20, 1582 (l. 13v)

id. Napoli, April 19, 1584 (l. 14v)

id. Roma, November 5, 1588 (l. 15r)

id. Roma, November 26, 1588 (l. 15r)

id. Roma, December 24, 1588 (l. 15v)

id. Roma, December 31, 1588 (l. 16r)

id. Roma, June 21, 1589 (l. 16v)

Badoer, Angelo. Napoli, June 28, 1584 (l. 17r)

id. Paris, March 22, 1587 (l. 17v)

id. Paris, June 22, 1587 (l. 18r)

Zonca, Alessandro. Roma, May 15, 1575 (l. 19r)

id. Roma, June 2, 1575 (l. 20r)

from Zonca, Alessandro. Venezia, June 11, 1575 (l. 21v)

Zonca, Alessandro. Roma, June 12, 1575 (l. 25r)

Minucci, Benedetto. Roma, May 2, 1582 (l. 30r)

Farnese, [Alessandro]. Paris, September 3, 1587 (l. 31r)

[Valier, Agostino], Bishop of Verona. Napoli, September 21, 1585 (l. 31v)

Caetani, [Enrico]. Napoli, December 12, 1585 (l. 32r)

Morosini, [Gianfrancesco]. Roma, June 15, 1588 (l. 32v)

id. Venezia, March 17, 1590 (l. 33r)

[Damasceni Peretti, Alessandro], Cardinal of Montalto. Paris, September 20, 1587 (l. 34r)

San Bonifacio, Carlo di. Paris, September 5, 1587 (l. 35r)

id. Vercelli, December 6, 1587 (l. 35v)

Trivisano, Domenico. Napoli, March 28, 1584 (l. 37v)

Guagnino, Ettore. Buoconvento, August 10, 1580 (l. 38v)

Orsini, Fabio. Paris, May 10, 1587 (l. 38, i.e. 39v)

id. Paris, June 4, 1587 (l. 41r)

Della Rovere, Giuliano. Roma, August 10, 1589 (l. 42r)

Mocenigo, Giovanni. Roma, September 16, 1580 (l. 42v)

id. Roma, September 24, 1580 (l. 43r)

id. Roma, November 5, 1580 (l. 44r)

id. Roma, November 26, 1580 (l. 44v)

id. Roma, January 6, 1581 (l. 45r)

id. Roma, February 25, 1581 (l. 45v)

id. Roma, April 15, 1581 (l. 46r)

id. Roma, April 21, 1581 (l. 46v)

id. Roma, June 30, 1581 (l. 47v)

id. Roma, July 15, 1587 (l. 50r)

id. Malta, October 18, 1581 (l. 52r)

id. Malta, February 20, 1582 (l. 52v)

id. Roma, July 9, 1583 (l. 53r)

id. Roma, July 23, 1583 (l. 54r)

id. Roma, August 6, 1583 (l. 54v)

id. Roma, September 13, 1583 (l. 55r)

id. Roma, September 24, 1583 (l. 55v)

id. Roma, October 15, 1583 (l. 56v)

id. Roma, January 28, 1583 (l. 57v)

id. Roma, January 15, 1584 (l. 58r)

id. Roma, February 24, 1584 (l. 59r)

id. Roma, March 3, 1584 (l. 59r)

id. Napoli, March 23, 1584 (l. 60r)

id. Napoli, April 27, 1584 (l. 61r)

id. Napoli, May 11, 1584 (l. 61v)

id. Napoli, June 28, 1584 (l. 62r)

id. Napoli, July 13, 1584 (l. 62v)

id. Napoli, July 27, 1584 (l. 63v)

id. Napoli, August 3, 1584 (l. 64r)

id. Napoli, August 16, 1584 (l. 65r)

id. Napoli, February 1, 1585 (l. 65v)

id. Napoli, February 16, 1585 (l. 65v)

id. Roma, July 13, 1585 (l. 66v)

id. Roma, August 10, 1585 (l. 67v)

id. Napoli, March 22, 1586 (l. 68r)

id. Napoli, May 9, 1586 (l. 69r)

id. Paris, June 22, 1587 (l. 69v)

id. Roma, June 25, 1588 (l. 71v)

Zeno, Girolamo. Roma, August 15, 1581 (l. 72r)

id. Roma, September 17, 1583 (l. 73r)

id. Roma, October 1, 1583 (l. 73v)

id. Roma, October 20, 1583 (l. 75r)

id. Napoli, July 20, 1584 (l. 76r)

id. Napoli, September 14, 1584 (l. 76v)

id. Torre del Greco, October 5, 1584 (l. 77r)

id. Napoli, October 23, 1584 (l. 77v)

id. Napoli, January 3, 1585 (l. 78r)

id. Napoli, March 16, 1585 (l. 79r)

id. Napoli, March 29, 1585 (l. 79v)

id. Roma, July 27, 1585 (l. 80r)

id. Roma, August 10, 1585 (l. 80v)

id. Torino, January 11, 1587 (l. 81r)

id. Paris, August 7, 1587 (l. 81v)

id. Roma, April 29, 1588 (l. 82r)

id. Roma, July 16, 1588 (l. 82v)

id. Martignano, August 25, 1585 (l. 83r)

id. Roma, December 24, 1588 (l. 84r)

id. Roma, January 7, 1589 (l. 84v)

id. Roma, January 21, 1589 (l. 85r)

id. Roma, April, 1589 (l. 85v)

id. Roma, May 6, 1589 (l. 86v)

id. Roma, May 13, 1589 (l. 87r)

id. Roma, July 22, 1589 (l. 87v)

id. Roma, August 19, 1589 (l. 88r)

Secchi, Giovanni Francesco. Napoli, February 16, 1585 (l. 88v)

id. Napoli, February 20, 1585 (l. 89r)

id. Napoli, November 15, 1585 (l. 89r)

id. Napoli, November 29, 1585 (l. 90r)

id. Napoli, December 13, 1585 (l. 90r)

id. Napoli, January 23, 1586 (l. 90v)

id. Napoli, January 17, 1586 (l. 91r)

id. Napoli, January 24, 1586 (l. 91v)

id. Napoli, February 14, 1586 (l. 92r)

id. Napoli, February 21, 1586 (l. 92v)

id. Napoli, March 21, 1586 (l. 93r)

id. Roma, July 26, 1586 (l. 93v)

id. Roma, November 11, 1586 (l. 94r)

id. Roma, October 5, 1586 (l. 94v)

id. Roma, October 25, 1586 (l. 95v)

id. Paris, January 31, 1587 (l. 96r)

id. Paris, June 28, 1587 (l. 96v)

id. Paris, April 25, 1587 (l. 97r)

id. Roma, March 12, 1588 (l. 98r)

id. Roma, April 8, 1589 (l. 98r)

id. Roma, May 6, 1589 (l. 98v)

Rannusio, Girolamo. Roma, November 5, 1588 (l. 99r)

Querini, Marco. Innsbruck, July 16, 1571 (l. 99v)

id. Bratislava, September 19, 1571 (l. 100v)

id. Roma, December 30, 1575 (l. 101r)

id. Napoli, May 8, 1578 (l. 112r)

id. Roma, November 26, 1580 (l. 114v)

Della Porta, Onofreo. Roma, April 29, 1585 (l. 115v)

Sperelli, Ottavio. Venezia, November 20, 1589 (l. 116r)

Albani, [Giovanni Battista?], Patriarch of Alexandria. Napoli, October 12, 1584 (l. 116v)

Badoer, Pietro. Roma, April 22, 1589 (l. 117r)

A tutti li Signori del Mezzato del Clarissimo Signor Giacomo Contarini (To the members of Giacomo Contarini's literary circle). Padova, October 26, 1580 (l. 118r)

Avogadro, [?], Bishop. Todi, July 20, 1577 (l. 118v)

id. Perugia, August 20, 1577 (l. 119v)

id. Venezia, August 30, 1579 (l. 20v)

Mocenigo, [Marcantonio], Bishop of Ceneda. Napoli, February 30, 1586 (l. 121r)

(Book II:)

Tiepolo, Antonio. Napoli, February 20, 1578 (l. 123r)

id. Napoli, November 20, 1578 (l. 123v)

Mocenigo, [Filippo], Archbishop of Cyprus. Napoli, January 20, 1586 (l. 124r)

id. Napoli, April 30, 1586 (l. 124v)

Badoer, Alberto. Roma, December 20, 1583 (l. 125r)

id. Roma, January 20, 1588 (l. 125v)

Arrighi, Francesco Alberto. Venezia, July 10, 1591 (l. 126r)

Alberti, Andrea. Roma, November 20, 1588 (l. 127v)

id. Venezia, December 5, 1589 (l. 128v)

Leoni, Agostino. Roma, September 7, 1581 (l. 134r)

Pesenti, Bernardo. May 30, 1583 (l. 134v)

Gambara, [Gianfrancesco]. Roma, September 20, 1581 (l. 135v)

Delfino, [Zaccaria]. Napoli, January 1, [1579 ?] (l. 136v)

Santacroce, [Prospero]. Venezia, September 6, 1588 (l. 137r)

Joyeuse, [François de]. Venezia, September 6, 1588 (l. 137v)

Este, [Luigi d']. Messina, September 2, 1582 (l. 137v)

id. Malta (l. 138v)

[Angennes de] Rambouillet, [Charles d']. Malta (l. 139v)

Commendone, [Gianfrancesco]. Napoli, March 20, 1580 (l. 140r)

Della Rovere, [Girolamo]. Paris, February 15, 1587 (l. 141r)

id. Venezia, September 6, 1588 (l. 141v)

Corner, Federico. Napoli, December 23, 1585 (l. 142r)

San Bonifacio, Carlo di. Napoli, July 4, 1583 (l. 142v)

id. Napoli, August 16, 1583 (l. 143r)

Al padre Camillo… June 16, 1572 (l. 143v)

Giustiniani, [Aloisio], Patriarch of Aquileia. Todi, 1574 (l. 144r)

Corrato, Giovanni. Napoli, 1580 (l. 144v)

Savorgnan, Giulio. Napoli, May 6, 1579 (l. 145r)

Zeno, Girolamo. Velletri, November 4, 1585 (l. 145v)

Mocenigo, Giovanni. Roma, July 29, 1581 (l. 147r)

Della Porta, Giovanni Vincenzo. Roma, September 20, 1580 (l. 149v)

id. August 25, 1581 (l. 150r)

Della Gostena, Giovanni Battista. Judenburg, October 6 [or 16], 1573 (l. 152r)

Gabrielli, Lelio. Napoli, May, 1580 (l. 154r)

id. Napoli, August, 1580 (l. 154v)

id. Napoli, September 5, 1580 (l. 154v)

Foligno, Ludovico. Roma, December 16, 1583 (l. 156r)

Muret, Marc-Antoine. Napoli, May, 1584 (l. 156v)

Querini, Marco. Roma, May 2, 1575 (l. 157r)

id. Venezia, September 16, 1588 (l. 157v)

from Muret, Marc-Antoine. Roma, April 27, 1584 (l. 158r)

Montemezzano, [Francesco]. Roma, August 6, 1589 (l. 158v)

Tiepolo, Paolo. Roma, 1575 (l. 160r)

Badoer, Pietro. Firenze, August 29, 1581 (l. 160v)

Speroni, Sperone. Frascati, September 28, 1575 (l. 162v)

Dolfin, [Giovanni], Bishop of Brescia. Todi (l. 164r)

Regazzoni, [Girolamo], Bishop of Bergamo. Roma, January 16, 1588 (l. 164v)

id. Roma, March 24, 1588 (l. 165r)

Sermone per la festa dell'Assontione della Beata Vergine. (p. 166r)

Sermone per la festa del Santissimo Corpo di Christo. (l. 174r)

Oratione nel primo parto della Serenissima Gran Duchessa di Toscana. (l. 181r)

Oratione per l'essequie dell'Illustriss. et Reverendissimo Signor Cardinale Farnese. (l. 188)

Oratione nelle revalescenza dell'Illustriss. et Reverendissimo Monsignore Giovanni Grimani Patriarca di Aquileia. (l. 196r)

(Book III:)

Innocent IX. Venice, November 4, 1591 (l. 203r)

Henry III, King of France. Roma, December 15, 1588 (l. 204r)

Lénoncourt, Philippe de. Roma, July 20, 1588 (l. 204v)

id. Roma, February 4, 1589 (l. 205v)

id. Roma, August 18, 1589 (l. 207r)

id. Venezia (l. 208v)

Al Cardinale… Paris, March 14, 1587 (l. 209v)

id. Paris, May 21, 1589 (l. 212r)

id. Paris, June 22, 1587 (l. 213v)

Caetani, [Enrico]. Paris, February 6, 1587 (l. 216v)

Morosini, [Gianfrancesco]. Venezia, May, 1591 (l. 217r)

Medici, Ferdinando de', Grand Duke of Tuscany. Venezia (l. 217v)

Medici, Giovanni de'. Venezia (l. 218v)

Al Signor Marchese… Lamentana, May, 1589 (l. 218v)

Este, Alessandro d'. Venezia, August 12, 1595 (l. 219r)

id. Venezia, September 8, 1595 (l. 220r)

id. Venezia, September 30, 1598 (l. 220v)

Pio, Marco. Ferrara, April 2, 1596 (l. 221r)

Guidoni, [Desiderio], Governor of Rome. Venezia, November 20, 1592 (l. 221v)

id. Venezia (l. 222r)

Di Capua, Annibale. Roma, May 2, 1585 (l. 223r)

Contarini, Giacomo. Roma, 1585 (l. 224r)

id. Venezia (l. 225v)

id. Venezia (l. 228r)

Tagliapietra, Benedetto, Podestà of Rovigo. November, 1595 (l. 230v)

Zeno, Girolamo. Pesaro, September, 1589 (l. 230v)

Badoer, Angelo. Napoli, July 1584 (l. 231r)

Capugnano Padre. Venezia, May 15, 1596 (l. 233v)

Ciotti, [Giovanni Battista]. Rovigo, July 4, 159? (l. 234r)

Al Signor… Venezia, August 10, 1595 (l. 235r)

Ludovici, Vincenzo. Rovigo, July 10, 1595 (l. 235v)

id. Ferrara, January 20, 1596 (l. 236v)

id. Ferrara, February 20, 1596 (l. 237r)

id. Ferrara, February 25, 1596 (l. 238r)

id. Ferrara, January 25, 1596 (l. 240r)

(Letters written by Leoni on behalf of cardinal Philippe de Lénoncourt:)

Farnese, [Alessandro]. Parigi, January 24, 1589 (l. 241r)

Caetani, [Enrico]. Paris, January 24, 1587 (l. 241v)

Gambara, [Gianfrancesco]. Paris (l. 242r)

Santacroce, [Prospero]. Paris (l. 242v)

[Biandrate di] San Giorgio [Aldobrandini, Gian Francesco]. Paris (l. 242v)

Rusticucci, [Girolamo]. Paris (l. 243r)

[Bonelli, Michele], called Cardinale Alessandrino. Paris (l. 243v)

Madruzzo, [Ludovico]. Paris (l. 244r)

Al Cardinale di Fiorenza [Medici, Alessandro de'?]. Paris (l. 244r)

Sforza, [Francesco]. Paris (l. 244v)

Pinelli, [Domenico]. Paris (l. 245r)

Carafa, [Antonio]. Paris (l. 245r)

[Acquaviva d'] Aragona, [Ottavio]. Paris (l. 245v)

[Gallio, Tolomeo], called Cardinal di Como. Paris (l. 246r)

[Valier, Agostino], Cardinal and [Bishop] of Verona. Paris (l. 246r)

Lancelotti, [Scipione]. Paris (l. 246v)

Spinola, [Filippo]. Paris (l. 247r)

Canani, [Giulio]. Paris (l. 247r)

Colonna, [Ascanio or Marco Antonio]. Paris (l. 247v)

[Santorio, Giulio Antonio] called Cardinal of Santa Severina. Paris (l. 247v)

Gesualdo, [Alfonso]. Paris (l. 248r)

Azzolini, [Decio]. paris (l. 248v)

Paleotti, [Gabriele]. Paris (l. 249r)

Salviati, [Bernardo or Antonmaria]. Paris (l. 249r)

Castrucci, [Giovanni Battista]. Paris (l. 249v)

[Sfondrati, Nicolò?], Cardinal of Cremona. Paris (l. 250r)

[Castagna, Giambattista], Cardinal of S. Marcello. Paris (l. 250v)

[Facchinetti, Giovanni Antonio], Cardinal of Ss. Quattro. Paris (l. 250v)

Aldobrandini, [Ippolito]. Paris (l. 251r)

[Rossi, Ippolito de'], Cardinal and [Bishop] of Pavia. Paris (l. 251v)

Cicogna, Pasqual, Doge of Venice. Paris, 1587 (l. 251v)

id. Roma, January, 1588 (l. 252v)

[Medici, Ferdinando I de'], Cardinal and Grand Duke of Tuscany. Roma, January, 1588 (l. 253r)

[Farnese, Alessandro], Duke of Parma. Paris, June, 1587 (l. 253r)

Peretti, Camilla. Paris, 1587 (l. 253v)

[Lauro, Vincenzo], Cardinal and [Bishop] of Mondovì. Paris (l. 254r)

[Damasceni Peretti, Alessandro], Cardinal of Montalto. Paris, August, 1587 (l. 254v)

Farnese, [Alessandro]. Paris (l. 255r)

[Farnese, Alessandro], Duke of Parma. Paris, 1587 (l. 255v)

Farnese, Ranuccio, Prince of Parma. Paris (l. 256r)

Farnese, Odoardo. Paris (l. 256v)

[Damasceni Peretti, Alessandro], Cardinal of Montalto. Paris, November, 1587 (l. 257r)

Pallotta, [Giovanni Evangelista], papal datario. Paris, March, 1587 (l. 257v)

Gambara, [Gianfrancesco]. Paris (l. 257v)

Farnese, Vittoria, Duchess of Urbino. (l. 258r)

[Rossi, Ippolito de'], Cardinal and [Bishop] of Pavia. Roma, February, 1588 (l. 258v)

Little is known about the life of Giovanni Battista Leoni. Only through the detailed study of his correspondence, which would deserve a modern edition, it is possible to reconstruct more precisely the main events of his life. Considering the size of his writings and the relationships he had during his career, he stands out as a figure of a certain importance.

Leoni was born in Venice. He mainly was active in Rome and Naples as a secretary to cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Later he entered the service of the cardinal Philippe de Lénoncourt, on whose account he traveled throughout Italy and to Paris, Malta, and Bratislava.

Leoni is the author of comedies (Roselmina, Florinda, Antiloco, etc.), madrigals, theological treatises, historical accounts and essays (Considerationi sopra l'Historia d'Italia di messer Francesco Guicciardini, 1583), and polemical writings (Due discorsi sopra la libertà ecclesiastica, published in 1606, under the pseudonym of Giovanni Simone Sardi, in defense of the ecclesiastical liberty of Venice). In 1593 he was among the founders of the Accademia Veneziana Seconda, which lasted until 1602. Several of his work were published under the academic nickname of Lauro Settizonio (cf. E. Cicogna, Delle inscrizioni veneziane, Venezia, 1842, V, p. 337).

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