Raffaello Borghini

In 1572–1575, he worked in Provence under the patronage of the governor, Jean de Pontevès [fr], and Cardinal Georges d'Armagnac.

[4] He is best known today for his work Il Riposo, a prose treatise on art for the Counter-Reformation and Counter-Maniera, first published in 1584.

It contains instructions on what to look for in art, a discussion of the writings of Pliny the Elder and Giorgio Vasari, and a discussion of Italian art history in the sixteen years since the second edition of Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects appeared in 1568.

It is written in a variety of the Tuscan language approaching modern Italian and was admired in the 17th and 18th centuries by the Accademia della Crusca for its linguistic characteristics.

[7] Giovambattista di Lorenzo Ubaldini attributed to him the lost work Dialogo in lode dell'ignoranza (Dialogue in Praise of Ignorance).