Antonio Cornazzano

Antonio Cornazzano (c. 1430 in Piacenza – 1484[1] in Ferrara) was an Italian poet, writer, biographer, and dancing master.

His father, Bonifacio Cornazzano was a well-known lawyer and his mother, Costanza Bagarotti, belonged to the small nobility from Piacentine territory.

He also wrote a small treatise on the art of dancing, a life of the Virgin Mary and a Latin scurrilous collection of 'novellae' "De proverbiorum origine".

He moved to Venetian territory and, for a time, worked with the condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni, whose biography Cornazzano wrote in Latin.

In 1475, he moved to the court of Ferrara, where he wrote important works; a short treatise on government, and one on military art (c. 1476) in prose.

It contains four poetic Italian works by Corazzano in terza rima- a form of stanza that requires a set of three lines that rhyme.