[309] _Ibid, p. 353, 354, 355._ Two manuscript copies of this work are preserved in the Laurentian, and a third in the Magliabecchian library at Florence. A fourth is deposited in the Ambrogian collection at Milan. The disgusting ribaldry of Beccatelli fully justifies the reproof which he received from Poggio. It is a disgrace to literature, that his work should have been lately committed to the press under the superintendence of a French editor. The Hermaphroditus was openly condemned, not only by Poggio, but also by Filelfo, Laurentius Valla, and by Mariano da Volterra, who inveighed against it in a long poem. It was the subject of reprobation in the sermons of Bernadino da Siena, and of Roberto da Lecce, who caused it to be burnt in the public squares of Bologna and Milan. The zeal of Valla, (which, by the way, was kindled as much by personal enmity as by a regard to morality) prompted him to hope that the same fate awaited its author. Besides the Hermaphroditus, Beccatelli published a variety of works, which are thus enumerated by Apostolo Zeno. 1. Alphonsi Regis Triumphus. 2. De Rebus gestis Ferdinandi Regis. 3. In coronatione Friderici III. Imperatoris Oratio Romæ habita 1452. 4. Ad Alphonsum Siciliæ Regem Oratio. 6. Oratio ad Caetanos de pace. 7. Oratio ad Venetos de pace. 8. Epistolarum Libri V. 9. Carmina. 10. Epistolæ et Orationes. 11. Epistolarum & Carminum liber. 12. In Rhodum Poema. 13. Tragediæ. 14. Commentarius in Plautum. 15. Elegiæ. 16. De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Libri IV. _Vallæ Invectiva secunda in Facium, sub finem._—_Zeno Diss. Voss. tom. i. p. 315, 316._ [310] _Concil. tom. xxx. p. 271._ [311] _Ibid, p. 298._ [312] In the _Fasciculus Rer. Expet. et Fugiend. tom. i. p. 46-54_, there is a very entertaining account drawn up by Æneas Sylvius of the organization and proceedings of the conclave which elected Amedeus to the pontificate, and of the splendid procession which took place at the coronation of this Anti-Pope, who assumed the name of Felix. [313] _Mehi Vita Ambros. Travers. p. ccccxxvii._ [314] _Elogi degli uomini illustri Toscani, tom. i. p. cccxlvi._ [315] _Mehi Vita Ambrosii Traversarii, p. ccccv._ [316] _Mehi Vita Ambrosii Traversarii, p. ccccxxvii._ [317] _Ibid, p. ccccxxviii._ [318] _Apostolo Zeno Diss. Vos. tom. i. p. 81._ [319] _Mehi Vita Ambrosii Traversarii, p. ccccxxxii._ The author of the life of Ambrogio, in the _Elogi degli uomini illustri Toscani_, mentions this report in the following terms. “Non manca chi creda, che Iddio a intercessione di Ambrogio facesse ancor dei prodigi. E certamente, l’esser dopo la di lui morte, nati spontaneamente gigli ed altri fiori sopra il suo cadavere, che colti dai Religiosi instantaneamente rifiorivano per tutto il luogo occupato dalla venerabile di lui spoglia, sembra cosa più che naturale. Eppure di ciò fanno fede persone che hanno potuto vedere ocularmente un tal prodigio al sacro Eremo di Camaldoli.” _p. cccxlviii. cccxlix._