"The Duke of Milan, etc., Count of Pavia and Angleria, Lord of Genoa. With confidence in the faith and sufficiency of our beloved Socinus de Seregnio, appointed for the nourishment of our singing birds , we hereby appoint the same Socinus as the official and custodian of the New Syte Postern, ...

And Salutati was Petrarch's mentor (see the famous men cycle in Padua he was connected with) and in turn Bruni was of course Salutati's student (or rather Salutati was his mentor and Bruni his eventual successor as chancellor). Of relevance, Bruni unsuccessfully engaged in a series of artistic subje...

Huck, Both of us and others were engaged in a muli-page thread on this very article but I can't find it (you even dug up images of the Arengo, etc. and posted those). The search function is not bringing up anything for me regarding that. Ross, I did write this in the Francesco Filelfo: the "Ode...

Regarding Poggio, since my earliest studies I had always taken him as an intellectual hero, and never cared to judge him ethically or in his personal moral character. He may have stolen books from German monasteries, true, but they weren't doing the monks any good. In my world, Renaissance humanism...

But alas we need the oration. Here's a copy, at the BNF, latin 18532, folios 31r-91v https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52502781f/f67.item Francisci Philelphi orationum Cosmum Medicem. Ad exules optimates florentinos. Liber primus. Nice! Seems to be oddly bound with a treatise about military ca...

Epicureanism Marziano used the good sense of Epicureanism in his chapter on Venus. See pages 40-41 of our edition. Since this was directed at an audience of one, and we know Filippo Maria's nature, it was obviously to call him to refined and moderate pleasures rather than the caricature of Epicurea...

See also: VILAR, MARIANO. “The Political Use of Epicureanism in Filelfo’s Commentationes Florentinae de Exilio .” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme 42, no. 2 (2019): 141–64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26860670. Despite calling himself "3-balled" with multiple wives (O...

Is Filelfo really asking about that incident? I'll have to read it more closely. What do the notes say? I just learned that Camena is a synonym for muse. I also had no idea that Alberti was known for his wealth. Several of his writings are dialogues deal with poverty and wealth, and tend to side wi...

The beard and face are both mentioned in Momus: https://forum.tarothistory.com/download/file.php?id=2726 !Momus 37.jpg Robin's intro even summarizes Momus as cynicism, which is relevant to the ensuing discussion below" !Momus intro xxiii.jpg Footnote 18 to the "beard/face" page explai...

I'm surprised any known writings of Filelfo are still unedited, especially ones of such interest to historians and biographers, including of Cosimo de' Medici and Filippo Maria Visconti. By contrast, every scrap of Alberti that comes to light is published within a few years. Alberti seems to excite...