CHAPTER XXIV

Count Guidantonio a patron of learned men--Duke Federigo--The _Assorditi_ Academy--Dedications to him--Prose writers of Urbino--Gentile Becci, Bishop of Arezzo--Francesco Venturini--Berni of Gubbio--Polydoro di Vergilio--Vespasiano Filippi--Castiglione--Bembo--Learned ladies 109