Angelo di Costanzo (1591),
Italian
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historian
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and
poet
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, was born at
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
around 1507.
Life
He lived in a literary circle, and fell in love with the beautiful
Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna (April 149225 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. As an educated, married noblewoman whose husband was in captivity, Colonna was able to develop relationships within the intellectual circl ...
. His great work, ''Le Istorie del regno di Napoli dal 1250 fino al 1498'', first appeared at Naples in 1572, and was the fruit of thirty or forty years labour; but nine more years were devoted to the task before it was issued in its final form at
Aquila (1581).
It is one of the best known histories of Naples, and the style is distinguished by clearness, simplicity and elegance.
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1500s births
1591 deaths
Italian poets
Italian male poets
16th-century Italian historians
Writers from Naples
Italian male non-fiction writers
16th-century Neapolitan people