Some thirty-two noblemen or squires contributed the other stories, with some 14 or 15 taken from Giovanni Boccaccio, and as many more from Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini or other Italian writers, or French fabliaux, but about 70 of them appear to be original.
His best-known writings are the two letters mentioned above and an apologetical tract in answer to the humanist Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini.
Gian Carlo Menotti | Francesco Rosi | Francesco Clemente | Francesco Bartolozzi | Francesco Guardi | Francesco Guccini | Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Francesco Marino Mannoia | Francesco Severi | Francesco Cossiga | Francesco Moser | Francesco Mondada | Poggio a Caiano | Gian Francesco Malipiero | Giovanni Francesco Fara | Gian Giorgio Trissino | Francesco Redi | Francesco Quinn | Francesco Graziani | Francesco De Gregori | Francesco Crispi | Francesco Conconi | Francesco Barberini | Terranuova Bracciolini | Gian Galeazzo Visconti | Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini | Gian-Carlo Rota | Francesco Sartori | Francesco Ruggieri | Francesco Paolo Bontade |
It is believed he travelled as far north as the 70°10' N. lat. In Rome he became friends with the cardinal Giordano Orsini and the pope's secretary Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, who were among those working to update the old Roman cartography.
The poet Beccadelli sold a country home for funding to purchase one manuscript copied by Poggio.