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The agents he employed travelled through Italy, Greece, Europe, and the East Hieronymo Donato, Ermolao Barbaro, and Paolo Cortesi being the names of some of his most trusted "commissioners."
Among her intimate acquaintances were also the famous Latinist, Cortesi; the youthful Sardoleto, the familiar of Cardinal Cibò; young Aldo Manuzio; the intellectual brothers Rafael and Mario Maffei of Volterra; and Egidio of Viterbo, who subsequently became famous as a pulpit orator and was made a cardinal. The last maintained his connection with Lucretia while she was Duchess of Ferrara.
"Cortesi! saw one ever such courtesy!" "San Marco keep you Immortali, for the grace of you!" "Sempiterni! everlasting ay, to be young like that, with so much pleasure in life Cielo!" "And the gondolieri of the Sempiterni do they live also forever? Signori Nobili, have you need of gondolieri?"
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