Complex sentence: Febo di Poggio, in 1532, asked for money in response to a love-poem, and earlier, Gherardo Perini, in 1522, stole from him shamelessly.
Split into simpler sentences: Febo di Poggio, in 1532, asked for money in response to a love-poem. Earlier, Gherardo Perini, in 1522, had stolen from him shamelessly.