[Footnote *84: Porcellio Napolitano was the laureate and secretary of Alphonso I. of Aragon and of Naples, and later the secretary and familiar of Sigismondo Malatesta. Porcellio seems to have hated Basinio, another court poet, whose works, with a long commentary, have been published (BATTAGLINI, _Basinii, Parmensis Poetæ Opera Præstantiora_ (Rimini, 1794)). Basinio seems to have proved before the Court of Rimini that Porcellio was ignorant of Greek. "One can be a fine Latin poet without knowing Greek," he answered in a rage, but truly enough. Basinio, however, asserted that not only Virgil and all the great poets and prose writers knew Greek, but showed that while that language was forgotten Italy was plunged in darkness. But enough of such absurdities, which have besides nothing to do with Urbino or even Dennistoun's history of it.] [Footnote 85: Nearly all we know of him will be found in the Scriptores, XX., 67, and XXV., 1.] [Footnote 86: See vol. I., pp. 209-11. Portions of the same poem are contained in Nos. 709 and 710 of the Urbino Library, the former corrected by the author, the latter in his autograph. Some of his minor lyrics were published at Paris in 1549, along with those of two other minstrels who sang the praises of the Malatesta.] Such were the foreign poets who frequented Duke Federigo's court. Its native bards left few works meriting particular notice, with one interesting exception. We have elsewhere to discuss Giovanni Sanzi or Santi,[*87] of Urbino, his merits as a painter, and the celebrity reflected on him from the eminence of his son, the unequalled Raffaele. Here we shall speak of his epic on that Duke's life, of which we have made frequent use in our first volume, and which demands attention on account of its excellence, as well as from the intimate connection with our subject of its author and theme. [Footnote *87: On Giovanni Santi, see CAMPORI, _Notizie e docum. per la vita di Giov. Santi e di Raffaello Santi da Urbino_ (Modena, 1870); GUERRINI, _Elogio Stor. di Giov. Santi_ (Urbino, 1822); SCHMARZOW, _Giovanni Santi der Vater Raffaels_, in _Kunstchronik_ (Leipsig), An. XXIII., No. 27; SCHMARZOW, _Giovanni Santi_ in _Vierteljahrsschrift für Kultur und Lett. der Renaissance_ (Leipsig), vol. II., Nos. 2-4. Cf. also CROWE & CAVALCASELLE, _History of Painting in Italy_, vol. III.]