Franciscus, cui prisca parem vix secla tulerunt,
Barbarus hic situs est; linguæ decus omne Latinæ.
Fortia facta viri pro libertate Senatûs
Brixia, quam magno tenuit sudore, fatetur.
Hic summi ingenii, scriptis, monumenta reliquit;
Græcaque præterea fecit Romana. Tenet nunc
Spiritus astra; sacros tumulus complectitur artus.”
The life of this illustrious scholar was so much occupied by active pursuits, that the catalogue of his writings is necessarily short. The following productions of his pen are still extant.
1. Francisci Barbari Veneti pro insigni Viro Joannino Conradino Veneto Physico Epitaphios Logos. Manuscript copies of this oration were preserved in the Dominican monastery of S. Nicolò, in Trivigi, and in the library of Apostolo Zeno.
2. Francisci Barbari Veneti Laudatio in Albertum Guidalotum cum eum in Academâ Patavinâ J. V. laureâ decoraret. This oration was published by Bernardo Pez, in a collection entitled Thesarurus novissimus Anecdotorum.