His grandson
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, bishop of
Fiesole, attempted to collect and publish his works in both Latin and Italian, and commissioned
Benedetto Varchi to write his biography. This was published together with the
Tre libri d’amore e un panegirico all’amore of the elder Cattani in Venice in 1561. The works of Diacceto, in the original Latin, are collected in the 1563 edition,
Opera Omnia, edited by
Theodor Zwinger and published in Basel.
De Pulchro, which is based on Plotinus, contains Diacceto's Neoplatonic theory of magical and astrological effects, in a chapter entitled: "The twofold soul, first and second, and its cognition likewise twofold, from which derives the appetite for beauty, and natural Magic: the nature of which he shows and which he differentiates from superstitious magic." == References ==