Nicola Orsini (1331–1399) was a Roman nobleman and man of letters who served the Holy See and the Kingdom of Naples.
[1] A pious and cultured man, Nicola was friends with Coluccio Salutati and Giovanni Boccaccio.
In 1361, he attended a meeting in the garden of Barbato da Sulmona [it] with Niccolò Acciaiuoli and other literati to urge Petrarch to publish his poem Africa.
[1] Nicola extensively renovated the basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and, in 1370, introduced a Carthusian convent into the building.
It was later rebuilt, but a description (ekphrasis) of the Gothic work is found in Ambrogio Leone's De Nola from 1514.