Individual and Polity in the Vita of Francesco Sansovino. Francesco Sansovino, "Al Magnifico Signor Gian Filippo Magnanini Secretario dell’Illustrissimo Signor Cornelio Bentivoglio (...) Di Venetia, alli 15. di Dicembre 1579", in: Francesco Sansovino: Del Secretario Libri VII (Venezia 1584), fols. 219 recto-222 recto (FONTES 45)

Abstract

FONTES 45 presents an autobiographical letter by Francesco Sansovino published in 1584 in his "Del secretario". Sansovino is a more important writer on art than is generally recognized