The Roman Academy of Pomponius Læetus and the Neapolitan Academy of Pontanus continued to exist after the death of their founders, while similar institutions sprang up in every town of Italy. To speak of these in detail would be quite impossible. With the commencement of the sixteenth century they lost their classical character, and assumed fantastic Italian titles. Thus the Roman coterie of wits and scholars called itself _I Vignaiuoli_. The members, among whom were Berni, La Casa, Firenzuola, Mauro, Molza, assumed titles like _L'Agreste_, _Il Mosto_, _Il Cotogno_, and so forth. The Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici founded a club in Rome for the study of Vitruvius. It met twice in the week, and was known as _Le Virtù_. At Bologna the _Viridario_ devoted its energies to the correction of printed texts; the _Sitibondi_ studied law, the _Desti_ cultivated extinct chivalry. Besides these, the one town of Bologna produced _Sonnacchiosi_, _Oziosi_, _Desiosi_, _Storditi_, _Confusi_, _Politici_, _Instabili_, _Gelati_, _Umorosi_. As the century advanced, academies multiplied in Italy, and their titles became more absurd. Ravenna had its _Informi_, Faenza its _Smarriti_, Macerata its _Catenati_, Fabriano its _Disuniti_, Perugia its _Insensati_, Urbino its _Assorditi_, Naples its _Sereni_, _Ardenti_, and _Incogniti_--and so on _ad infinitum_. At Florence the Platonic Academy continued to flourish under the auspices of the Rucellai family, in whose gardens assembled the company described by Filippo de' Nerli,[340] until the year 1522, when it was suppressed on the occasion of the conspiracy against Giulio de' Medici. Duke Cosimo revived it under the name of the Florentine Academy in 1540, when its labours were wholly devoted to Petrarch and the Italian language. In 1572 appeared the famous academy called _Della Crusca_, the only one among these later societies which acquired an European reputation. [Footnote 340: See Vol. I., _Age of the Despots_, p. 220, note.]