# Works De Capua 2014 = De Capua, Paola. 2014. Le lettere di Francesco Patrizi. Messina: Centro internazionale di studi umanistici. Hankins 2019 = James Hankins, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2019. Hankins 2023 = James Hankins, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2023. For other references see [Bibliography of Secondary Literature on Patrizi](/secondary-literature) under 'RESOURCES.' **LETTERS** 1 *Letters*. De Capua divides the surviving letters into two groups: (a) the Foligno Corpus (173 letters), written while Patrizi was the governor of Foligno; and (b) the *Lettere sparse* or scattered letters (63 letters, to and from Patrizi), collected from various manuscript sources by De Capua. The complete text of the letters was edited in De Capua’s unpublished doctoral thesis (1991). The letters are quoted extensively in her 2014 study; see also Hankins 2023. 2 *De magistratu gerendo.* A letter-treatise directed to Achille Petrucci, written about 1445. Included by De Capua among the *Lettere sparse* (no. 39). It survives in at least eight manuscripts. Hankins 2023. **LATIN POETRY** 3 ***Poematum libri IV.*** A collection of 41 poems in various meters, composed in Patrizi’s early career and scribally published in 1461 with a dedication to Pope Pius II. The collection was never printed but survives in several manuscripts. A number of the poems also circulated independently. The only one to become well known was 2.2, “De Christi Natali,” which survives in at least eighteen copies and was printed in Padua in 1482. In some manuscripts it was attributed falsely to Francesco Filelfo or Tommaso Schifaldo, a student of Patrizi. In modern times two poems were published in Altamura 1941 (1.5, 4.4) and three more in Avesani 1968 (3.2, 3.3, 4.5). Discussed passim in Hankins 2023. 4 [**Epigrammaton liber.**](/file_url/126) A collection of 345 epigrams of varying lengths, composed by Patrizi in the latter part of his career and apparently left unpublished at his death. They survive in a single manuscript. Twenty-three of the poems were published by Leslie Smith in various articles cited in the Secondary Bibliography. Discussed passim in Hankins 2023. **GRAMMATICAL WORKS** 6 *De metris Horatii* (1441-1444?). A treatise on Horatian meters, surviving in two manuscripts. 7 Epitome of Quintilian’s *Institutes.* Written probably between 1457 and 1460, and dedicated to Patrizi’s pupil, Francesco Tranchedini. It survives in at least 15 manuscripts and was printed in Paris in 1554, falsely attributed to Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder. The preface was printed in Bassi 1894, 438. 8 Epitome of Priscian’s *Institutes of Grammar.* Probably written between 1457 and 1460. It survives in at least six manuscripts. See Black 2001, 142-43; De Capua 2014, 102. 9 *Commentary on* Petrarch’s *Canzoniere*. The work was commissioned by Patrizi’s patron, Alfonso, duke of Calabria in 1476 or 1477. It is the only surviving work of Patrizi written in the vernacular, apart from a small number of letters. It survives in at least six manuscripts. Paolino 1999; Paolino 2000; De Capua 2014, 180-91; Hankins 2023. **SPEECHES** 10 *Oratio de laudibus philosophiae*, composed for the inauguration of the school year in Siena, 1426.. The work survives in two manuscripts. In the second manuscript it carries the title *De studiorum artium optimarum laudibus.* An edition and translation by Caroline Engelmayer and James Hankins is in preparation. See Fioravanti 1979, 134n1; Fioravanti 1993, 199n23; De Capua 2014, 26-27; Hankins 2023. 11 *Oratio ad Hippolytam Mariam Sfortiam*. Also called *De maritalis coniugii dignitate oratio* or *De matrimonio*. Delivered in Milan before Duke Francesco Sforza for the wedding of his daught Ippolita Maria to Alfonso, duke of Calabria in May, 1465. The work survives in at least eight manuscripts and has been printed in modern times by Rosa and Francesco Tateo 1990. See D’Elia 2004, 6, 85, 112-113, 171-3; De Capua 2014, 175-80; Hankins 2023. 12 *Oratio ad* *Innocentium VIII.* Oration on behalf of King Ferrante of Naples to celebrate the crowning of Innocent VII as pope, 29 December 1484. There are at least three surviving manuscripts and the work was distributed from three different print shops in Rome in 1484. See De Capua 2014, 179n; Hankins 2023 **HISTORICAL WORK** 13 *De origine et antiquitate urbis Senae* (On the origin and ancient history of the city of Siena)*.* The date of composition is uncertain, but it probably falls after 1460. The work survives in eleven manuscripts. See De Capua 2014, 77; Hankins 2023. **POLITICAL TREATISES** 14 *De institutione reipublicae,* datable to 1461/71, although the presumed dedication copy is dated 1479. Originally commissioned by Pius II, it was finally dedicated to Sixtus IV and to the city of Siena. It survives in at least eleven manuscripts and many printed editions. 15 *De regno et regis institutione*, datable to 1481/84. Dedicated to Alfonso, duke of Calabria. It survives in at least six manuscripts and many printed editions. ![De institutione republicae frontipiece](/sites/g/files/omnuum8716/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/patrizisiena/files/biblioteca_apostolica_vaticana.jpg?itok=NxKvxNAC) *Dedication copy to Pope Sixtus IV of Patrizi's De institutione republicae © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana*