On 10 August 1485 Luigi Da Porto the literary man , was born in Vicenza. As his family of origin was related to that one of Elisabeth Gonzaga, duchess of Urbino, he was sent, not yet 20 years old, to Frederick’s court in order to complete his apprenticeship. In Urbino he met and become a friend of Peter Bembo, with whom he established a long and epistolary period of correspondence. When he returned to Vicenza, he importance of Vicenza’s culture life and its nobility.

He personally experienced the vicissitudes of the Cambrai League when, in 1508, in France the Empire and the papacy formed an alliance against the superpower of Venice in Italy. Da Porto was an attentive, curious witness of this War, that for some years involved the Veneto and its surroundings, before participating in it directly, taking part in several military ventures, during the last of which he was seriously injured.

His literary activities typical of a man of court, who lived his life between military occupations and humanistic leisures, were all carried out in the years following his return to Vicenza and expressed in a collection of poems and rhymes in Petrarchois style, in a novel dedicated to the story of Romeo and Juliet and in the collection of historical Letters.
Luigi Da Porto died in Vicenza on 10 May 1529.