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The Orti Oricellari (Rucellai Gardens) were the setting for a series of informal discussion groups between humanists and other leading figures of Florentine society during the late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-centuries.

Participants
There were two phases of meetings. The earlier phase (from approx. 1495 to 1506) was hosted by Bernardo Rucellai. In attendance were (source in brackets): Giovanni Canacci (Gelli’s Ragionamento) Giovanni di Bardo Corsi (Crinito’s De Honesta Disciplina and Gelli’s Ragionamento) Pietro Crinito (Crinito’s “Ad Faustum: De sylva Oricellaria” and De Honesta Disciplina) Dantes Populeschus (Fonzio’s correspondence) Francesco da Diacceto ‘il Nero’ (Crinito’s De Honesta Disciplina and Gelli’s Ragionamento) Bartolomeo Fonzio (Fonzio’s correspondence) Giovan-Battista Gelli (Gelli’s Ragionamento) Piero Martelli (Gelli’s Ragionamento) Cosimo Pazzi (Corsi’s forewords) Bindaccio Ricasoli (Corsi’s forewords) Bernardo Rucellai as host (Crinito’s ‘Ad Faustum’ and De Honest Disciplina, Fonzio’s correspondence, Gelli’s Ragionamento and Filippo de' Nerli Francesco Vettori (Gelli’s Ragionamento)

In Literature
The Orti Oricellari are the setting for the discussion recounted in Niccolò Machiavelli's Arte della Guerra.