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«As well as being a poet, Marullus was by birth a Greek…he was born in the Morea c, 1461, around the time of its subjugation by the Turks, the son of a man variously known as Manoli Marulo, Emmanuel Marulla…The poets mother was Euphrosyne Tarchaniotissa, bearer of a more distinguished family name than her husband's and friend of Francesca Marzano, niece of Ferrante I, king of Naples, and second wife of Leonardo III Tocco, despot of Arta.»