Belisario Acquaviva, Duca di Nardò (c. 1464 – 24 July 1528) was an Italian

Italy

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 nobleman and writer from the Kingdom of Naples

Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...

. The younger brother of the literary figure Andrea Matteo Acquaviva

Andrea Matteo Acquaviva

Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, 8th Duca d'Atri was an Italian nobleman and condottiero from the Kingdom of Naples, who distinguished himself as a partisan of the French. He was made prisoner by Consalvo of Cordova and carried into Spain; but his confinement was not long, and on his return to Naples he...

, Belisario politically opposed his brother, being loyal to the Spaniards

Spain

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. Belisario was hence enabled not only to preserve his own patrimony, but to procure the restitution of his brother's. Like that brother, he applied himself to letters, and left several dissertations, collected since into one volume.

Of this illustrious name were several other members attached to literature. Two dukes of Atri were poet

Poet

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