Camillo Porzio (1526–1580) was an Italian historian.

Life

He belonged to a wealthy and

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family, and was the son of the philosopher

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. He studied

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, first at

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and later at

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, and after graduating '' in utroque jure'', practised as a lawyer in Naples. His chief literary work is ''La Congiura dei baroni'', a history of the unsuccessful conspiracy of the Neapolitan barons against King

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in 1485; it is based on the authentic records of the state trials, but is prejudiced in favor of the royal power. It was first published by

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in Rome in 1565. Of Porzio's other works, the ''Storia d'Italia'' (from 1547 to 1552), of which only the first two books have survived, is the most important.

References

Attribution: * 16th-century Italian historians 1526 births 1580 deaths 16th-century Neapolitan people {{Italy-historian-stub