Belisario Acquaviva

Belisario Acquaviva, Duca di Nardò (c. 1464 – 24 July 1528[1]) was an Italian nobleman and writer from the Kingdom of Naples.

Unlike his brother Andrea Matteo, 8th Duke of Atri, who supported the French, Belisario fought against Charles VIII of France, and was rewarded by King Ferdinand II of Naples with the fief of Nardò and the title Count.

He was later made Duke of Nardò by Charles V.[2] 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.

[3] He was a friend of Giovanni della Casa, and like his older brother, was a member of the Accademia Pontaniana.