Niccolò Speziale di Noto ((Noto, c. 1380 – Noto, 13 Feb. 1444) was the
Viceroy of Sicily in 1423–1424, and 1425–1432.
He was a personal Sicilian vassal of Aragonese ''Infante''
John of Aragon,
Viceroy of Sicily from 1409–1416,
Peter, infans of Aragón
Peter, Infante of Aragón (1406 – 1438 besieging Naples, Italy), Viceroy of Sicily (1424–1425) and Duke of Noto, was the sixth child of King Ferdinand I of Aragón and Countess Eleanor of Alburquerque.
Future king John, Henry and Peter we ...
,
Viceroy of Sicily from 1524–1525, and of the Infante
Henry of Aragon
Infante Henry of Aragon (1400 – 15 June 1445), 1st Duke of Villena, 4th Count of Alburquerque, Count of Ampurias, was the Grand Master of the Order of Santiago.
Childhood
A member of the House of Trastamara, Henry was the third son of Ki ...
.
He was a close associate of Sicilian military man and diplomat
Ruggero Paruta
Ruggero (), the Italian equivalent of Roger, may refer to:
*Roger I of Sicily, Ruggero I of Sicily (1031–1101) Norman king of Sicily
*Ruggero Berlam (1854–1920), Italian architect
*Ruggero Bonghi (1826–1895), Italian scholar, writer and pol ...
. He was in good terms with famous Italian literary author
Antonio Beccadelli. It is most likely, that both, Speziale and Beccadelli attended the wedding in 1420, of ''Infante'' John of Aragon to the widowed Navarrese Princess
Blanche I of Navarre
Blanche I (6 July 1387Anthony (1931) states that she was the fourth-born daughter of King Charles III of Navarre by Queen Eleanor, and she was preceded by Joan, Maria and Margaret and the two latter died early. Anthony defines Blanche's exact birt ...
.
Aragonese power, centered on Sicilian-Spanish families, such as
Ávalos or
Davalos,
Moncada, or
Montcada,
Cabrera,
Cardona,
Chiaramonte,
Folch de Cardona,
Aragón or
Aragona
Aragona ( scn, Araùna or ''Raona'') is a commune in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, southern Italy. It is northeast of Agrigento. It is known mainly for the Macalube natural reserve and for being the Italian municipality with the highest e ...
,
Requesens,
Ximenez de Urrea,
Luna,
Centelles,
Moncayo Pignatelli,
Platamone,
Caracciolo Caracciolo () is an Italian surname most associated with the noble House of Carácciolo from the Kingdom of Naples.
Other people with the name include:
* Alberto Caracciolo, Argentinian musician
* Andrea Caracciolo, Italian footballer
* Battiste ...
,
Tagliacozzo,
Corella,
Paternò, and
Ventimiglia.
Contemporary humanists and academicians were likely indebted to Speciale, such as
Iovianus Pontanus and Neapolitan
Jacopo Sannazaro, who influenced also Spanish poetry of the early
Renaissance. Imperial Spain soldiers as
Juan Boscàn,
Garcilaso de la Vega and
Jorge de Montemor
( es, Jorge de Montemayor) (1520? – 26 February 1561) was a Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish. His most famous work is a pastoral prose romance, the ''Diana'' (1559).
Biography
He was born at Montemor- ...
, or Sicily based
Gutierre de Cetina, (1520- Mexico, 1557), heavily linked since then to the study of sixteenth-century European culture.
A person of the same name was born in Noto, Sicily in the 13th century and published chronicles of the history of Sicily from the
Sicilian Vespers in 1282 to the death of
Frederick III of Sicily.
Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); p. 154.
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14th-century Sicilian people
Viceroys of Sicily
Year of birth unknown
1444 deaths