in 1508.

He settled in Florence, where the chief branch of his family continued to flourish, and had for his second master Piero di Cosimo, that jocund and facile painter and vivid and harmonious colourist, under whose brush the pagan deities came to life again.

This Giusto was by no means a mediocre artist, but he consumed all his forces in the vain effort to reconcile his primary Gothic education with the newly awakened spirit of the Renaissance.

Towards the middle of the seventeenth century the Sperelli family migrated to Naples.

There a Bartolomeo Sperelli published in 1679 an astrological treatise: _De Nativitatibus_; in 1720 a Giovanni Sperelli wrote for the theatre an opera bouffe entitled _La Faustina_ and also a lyrical tragedy entitled _Progne_; 1756 a Carlo Sperelli brought out a book of amatory verses in which much licentious persiflage was expressed with the Horatian elegance so much affected at that period.