Angelo Colocci

From 1511 he worked as one of the apostolic secretaries, a demanding position that curtailed his private literary abilities[3] at the same time it placed him in the social center of the humanists at the court of Pope Julius II,[b] as a correspondent of Jacopo Sadoleto, Pietro Bembo and Aldus Manutius in Venice.

[5] In 1513 he bought a garden property near the Trevi Fountain, which, with the additional draw of his fine library, became a meeting place of the struggling[c] Roman Academy that had been founded by the late Pomponio Leto (died 1497).

Colocci was a Latin poet of some reputation among his learned contemporaries, an antiquarian whose understanding of ancient metrology and sacrificial implements were particularly outstanding, and a savant collector of Roman sculptures, inscriptions, medals and carved gems.

[9] His collection of sculptures was mentioned by Andrea Fulvio in Antiquitates Urbis (1527), a topographical guide to the city's ancient Roman ruins and remains.

[10] A proportion of his considerable fortune was also expended in amassing one of the most impressive private libraries of his time,[11] brutally treated at the Sack of Rome, in 1527, when Colucci was forced to pay exorbitant bribes to preserve his own life.