[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Details of his biography are obscure: he was born in either Constantinople[11] or near the site of ancient Sparta in the Despotate of the Morea on the Peloponnese.

[16] In order to liberate his subjugated homeland from domination he was willing to take up arms himself and allied with the king of France when he planned to go on a crusade.

[18] Through his poetry, Marullus got in contact with many influential people of his time, including popes, kings and members of the Medici family.

In Marullus, Soldier Poet of the Renaissance (London, 1989), she reveals the life of a soldier-poet who roamed exotic lands, composed poems at the borders of the Black Sea, and participated in a military campaign of Vlad the Impaler (the inspiration for Dracula).

The French poet Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) considered Marullus as one of his teachers and dedicated an epitaph to him.

In addition, the Hymnes were translated in Italian by Donatella Coppini (Florence, 1995), and in French by Jacques Chomarat (Genève, 1995).