Writing to his nephew Lionardo in 1554, he says: "Messer Giovan Francesco (Fattucci) asked me about a month ago if I possessed any writings of the Marchioness.

I have a little book bound in parchment, which she gave me some ten years ago.

It has one hundred and three sonnets, not counting another forty she afterwards sent on paper from Viterbo.

I had these bound into the same book, and at that time I used to lend them about to many persons, so that they are all of them now in print.

In addition to these poems I have many letters which she wrote from Orvieto and Viterbo.