Sabellicus while at Udine wrote an antiquarian work on
Aquileia that appeared in 1482. He wrote further works concerned with Venice, including a street-level description
De Venetae urbis situ ('On the site of Venice' 1492). As a humanist scholar, he wrote commentaries on classical authors. The
Enneades sive Rhapsodia historiarum appeared in 1498. His collected works were published in 1560 at
Basel. An early poem in
hexameters,
De rerum et artium inventoribus, was an influence on
Polydore Vergil, whom Sabellicus had helped with
Guidobaldo of Urbino. It derives from the
Historia Naturalis of
Pliny the Elder, book VII, on the history of
inventions. It was also quoted verbatim by
Otto Heurnius, writing in 1600 a pioneering history of "barbarian philosophy". He also wrote "De Venetis magistratibus", Venice: Antonius de Strata, 1488, on the duties of various Venetian magistrates; it has a dedication letter of the author to the doge Augustinus Barbadicus and letter to the reader of Petrus Benedictus Venetus ==Notes==