Celio Augustino Curione

Celio Augustino Curione (1538–1567) was an Italian scholar and reformer who held the chair of rhetoric at Basel.

[2] Celio Augustino Curione was born in 1538 in Salò sul Garda in Brescia.

He was the son of the reformer Celio Secondo Curione and Margherita Bianca Isacchi.

[3] Curione edited the works of Pietro Bembo, and the Hieroglyphica of Pierio Valeriano Bolzani.

His sources included De futuris Christianorum triumphis in Turchos et Saracenos by Annio da Viterbo, works by the Byzantine emperor John VI Kantakouzenos and above all the Annales of the Byzantine chronicler George Kedrenos.