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He left Hungary in 1477 , and was made prisoner at Venice on a charge of having propagated heterodox opinions ... . He might have suffered seriously but for the protection of Sixtus IV , then Pope , who had been one of his scholars ... . He attached himself to Louis XI , and died in his service . S. -RSB- Martivalle was none of those ascetic , withered , pale professors of mystic learning of those days , who bleared their eyes over the midnight furnace , and macerated their bodies by out watching the Polar Bear . He indulged in all courtly pleasures , and until he grew corpulent , had excelled in all martial sports and gymnastic exercises , as well as in the use of arms ; insomuch , that Janus Pannonius -LSB- a Hungarian poet of the fifteenth century -RSB- has left a Latin epigram upon a wrestling match betwixt Galeotti and a renowned champion of that art , in the presence of the Hungarian King and Court , in which the Astrologer was completely victorious . The apartments of this courtly and martial sage were far more splendidly furnished than any which Quentin had yet seen in the royal palace ; and the carving and ornamented woodwork of his library , as well as the magnificence displayed in the tapestries , showed the elegant taste of the learned Italian . Out of his study one door opened to his sleeping apartment , another led to the turret which served as his observatory .