It played a key role in introducing conceptismo to Naples, where orthodox Petrarchism had displaced the richly experimental poetry produced there in the previous decades.

[3] The Oziosi numbered many notable men of letters, including Angelo Grillo, Giambattista della Porta and Giovanni Vincenzo Imperiale.

[3] Among its foreign members the Academy numbered the brothers Bartolomé and Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola.

[4] The Academy enjoyed patronage from the viceroy of Naples Pedro Fernández de Castro, Count of Lemos.

[5] By the mid 1650s the Academy became the launching platform for the literary careers of a long series of poets who moved conceptismo towards ever more elaborate and ornately erudite forms, most notably Giuseppe Battista.